Petition [III AD]
Petition to the court of the prefect; at line 7 begins the address of an earlier petition to the dioiketes
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31836
Petition to the court citing earlier petitions to the dioiketes TM 31836Oxyrhynchos (?)201 CE – 260 CE
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Fragmentary petition, probably addressed to the prefect's court, quoting earlier petitions to the dioiketes and official subscriptions in its background. It concerns someone who avoided the court despite instructions, apparently in third-century AD Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
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[…] on account of this fear he ordered […]
[…] to the most excellent dioiketes Aur[…]
[…] to your magnificence […]
[…] to the most excellent dioiketes
[…] to the most excellent dioiketes […]
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Phamenoth 16, to the most excellent […]
[…] according to this subscription […]
[…]odoros, who ordered him […]
[…] therefore him readily answers (?) […]
[…] knowing that he had been given […]
[…] was avoiding the court and referred (?) […]
[…] not having made mention […]
[…] of the subscription referring the […]
[…] to […]odoros, which was publicly posted […]
[…] as is reasonable, by a rescript […]
The dioiketes was a high financial official; a subscription (hypographe) was an official's written response on a petition. One record narrows the date to AD 201-260.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.col.10.270
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