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A petition from Aurelius Patermouthis, a pork-butcher of Oxyrhynchus, to Aurelius Ampelios, beneficiarius of the prefect of Egypt. He reports that after he locked his farmstead in the Shepherds' quarter, where he kept six pigs, his neighbour Thonios told him of a crime there; arriving with witnesses, they found the sealed door opened and evidence that a sow had been slaughtered. The text dates to the 3rd century AD.
A beneficiarius was a soldier seconded to police and administrative duties, often the recipient of complaints about crimes. The end of the petition, with the request itself, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petizione al beneficiarius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀμπελίῳ βενεφικιαρίῳ ἐπάρχου Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Πατερμουθίου χοιροκόπτου ἀπὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πολεως…αφ…χνων τῇ προδιελθούσηι ἡμέραι ἐμοῦ κατὰ τὸ ἔθος ἐξασφαλίσαντος τὴν ἡμετέραν ἔπαυλιν, οὖσαν ἐπʼ ἀμφόδου Ποιμενικῆς γειτνιεύουσαν Θωνίῳ τιν…
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