One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35497
Order to the eirenarchs of Telbonthis concerning stolen cattle TM 35497Hermopolis (?)V
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An order from Heraklammon, a high-ranking riparius (police official), to the eirenarchs (village peace officers) of Telbonthis. It instructs them to make the brothers Kollouchis and Sirios, sons of Penob, return two cattle they took from Anouphios, or else send them to the city if they contest it, since they have been accused before the magistrate.
In English machine translation
From Heraklammon, clarissimus and riparius,
to the eirenarchs of the village of Telbonthis. Make Kollouchis and Sirios his brother, the sons of Penob, who carried off the two head of cattle of Anouphios, restore them to him, or if they dispute it, send them up to the city. For they have been accused before the magistrate.
I pray for your health.
A riparius was a late Roman police official of a city district; the eirenarchs were village peace officers. Such summonses are usually classed as warrants for arrest.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Warrant 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.amh.2.146
παρὰ Ἡρακλάμμωνος λαμπροτάτου καὶ ῥιπαρίου εἰρηνάρχοις κώμης Τελβώνθεως. ποιήσατε Κολλοῦχιν καὶ Σίριον τὸν αὐτοῦ ἀδελφὸν τοὺς υἱοὺς Πενὸβ τοὺς ἀποσπάσαντας τὰ δύο βοικὰ ζῷα Ἀνουφίου ἀποκαταστῆσαι αὐτῷ, ἢ ἀντιλέγοντας ἐκπέμψατε ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν. ᾐτιάθησαν γὰρ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἄρχοντος. ἐρρῶσθ…