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Petition from Aurelius Apphous, a non-native resident of the village of Tampemu in the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the councillor Flavius Strategios, who administered the village. He complains that the village headmen are unlawfully trying to drive him out although he pays his annual poll-tax, and asks that they be summoned. It dates to the 5th century AD.
The opening χμγ is the Christian isopsephic symbol (often read as 'God is witness' or similar), numerically 643. 'Xenos kai paroikos' means an outsider settled in the village without native status there.
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.
χμγ Φλαουΐῳ Στρατηγίῳ τῷ αἰδεσίμῳ πολιτευομένῳ φροντίζοντι κώμης Ταμπέμου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀπφοῦτος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης· ξένος καὶ πάροικος τυγχάνων ἐν τῇ προειρημένῃ κώμῃ καὶ τὸ τέλεσμα ὑπὲρ τῆς αἱρούσης μοι κεφαλῆς εὐγνωμονῶ καθʼ ἕκαστον ἔτος· οὐκ οἶδα δὲ τίνος χάριν οἱ κώμαρχοι τ…
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