Draft of a petition
In this papyrus, the official addressed is asked to be severe in bringing 'them' to justice. The petition may have something to do with the office of prytanis.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31009
Fragment of a draft petition asking that offenders be brought to justice TM 31009unknownThird or fourth century CE
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A small fragment of a draft petition in which the official addressed is asked to act severely and have certain people brought before him. It mentions laws and possibly the office of prytanis, and dates to the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
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[…] did (?) […] … laws being […] and of the prytan(y) (?) […] … that these be brought before your severity (?) […]
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The word read as epistrephen probably stands for 'severity' (epistrophe), so the petitioner asks the official to deal firmly with the accused. The prytanis was the presiding magistrate of a city council in Roman Egypt.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Draft of a Petition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.leid.inst.1.99
[… ? lines lost …] […] […] πραξαν[…] …ωθέντων νόμων ὄντων καὶ τῆς πρυτα[…]ων…ρ… ἐπιστρεφὴν παραστῆναι τούτους παρὰ τῆς σῆς […]