p.oxy.12.1507
παρὰ τῶν εἰρηνάρχων κωμάρχαις καὶ ἐπιστάτῃ εἰρήνης Τερύθεως. ἐξαυτῆς ἀναπέμψατε τοὺς γενομένους τηρητὰς τοῦ λ…[…]ου ἢ αὐτοὶ ἀνέρχεσθε. σεσημείωμαι.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31752
Order from eirenarchs to officials of Terythis to send up guards TM 31752OxyrhynchitesIII
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A short order from the eirenarchs (police officials) to the village heads and the local peace officer of Terythis, telling them to send up immediately the men who had served as guards, or else to come up themselves. It dates to the 3rd century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
From the eirenarchs
to the komarchs and the epistates of the peace of Terythis. Send up at once the men who were guards of the […]
[or] come up yourselves. I have signed.
Eirenarchs were liturgical police officials of the nome; the 'epistates of the peace' was a village-level police officer. What the guards were guarding is lost in a gap.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order from Irenarchs to Village - officials). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.