Summons ("Orders to Arrest")
Order to the chief of police of an unnamed village and to another official to send several men to the main town of the nome for trial
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31550
Order from the strategos to send up accused men TM 31550Arsinoites (?)IIIrd century/IVth century A.D.
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A short order from the strategos (governor of the nome) to the local nomophylax and archephodos, two village police officials, to send up several named men accused by a certain son of Horos. It is dated Choiak 22 and probably comes from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
The strategos to the nomophylax and the archephodos […]: send up Harchyis son of Harphmousis and […] son of Nepheros and Harphmouis his brother and […]allos and Gorsenouphis, who are accused by […]sebeis (?) son of Horos. Choiak 22.
One record dates the text to the AD 3rd-4th century instead of the late 1st to early 2nd century. The nomophylax and archephodos were village police officials with no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Arrest). 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.mich.10.590
ὁ στρατηγὸς νομοφύλακι καὶ ἀρχεφόδῳ[…] ἐκπέμψατε Ἁρχῦιν Ἁρφμούσιος καὶ[…] Νεφερῶτος καὶ Ἁρφμοῦιν ἀδελφὸν καὶ[…] αλλον καὶ Γορσενοῦφιν ἐνκαλουμένους ὑπὸ[…] σεβειος Ὥρου. Χοιὰκ κβ.