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Petition by Aurelius Sarapion son of Silvanus complaining that a female slave of Melas the silversmith came to his house and verbally abused his wife and unmarried daughter with shameful words. He asks the official to summon her for correction and punishment. It dates to the 4th century AD.
The opening, with the addressee and the slave's name, is lost; the feminine pronoun shows the offender was a woman. The consular date refers back to a consulship named in the lost heading.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] να οἰκέτην Μέλανος ἀργυροκόπου ἐπῆλθεν τῇ οἰκητικῇ μου οἰκίᾳ ἐν τῇ χθὲς ἡμέρᾳ καὶ ὕβρεις οὐ τὰς τυχούσας τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ συμβίῳ καὶ τῇ παρθένῳ μου θυγατρὶ ἀνοικείοις καὶ αἰσχροῖς ῥήμασι συνῆψεν καὶ ἐπεὶ οὐ χρὴ σιωπῇ παραδίδοσθαι τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτῆς εἰρημένα παρὰ τοὺς νόμου…
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