Order
Order (prostagma) of Dioscoros, praeses of Thebaid, to Apollos son of Isaac, charging him to accept the post of riparios of Aphrodito. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
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Order of the governor appointing Apollos son of Isakios riparius of Aphrodito TM 36518Antinoopolisc.AD 540
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An official order from Dioskoros, governor of the Thebaid, to Apollos son of Isakios, appointing him riparius (police officer) of the village of Aphrodito at the request of the villagers. It was issued around AD 538-540 at Antinoopolis and belongs to the archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.
In English machine translation
Flavius Ioannes Menas Iustinianus Demosthenes Straton Elias Theodoros Dioskoros, the most magnificent governor of the province of the Thebaid,
to Apollos son of Isakios.
Those who make up the community of the village of Aphrodite, through Charisios and Bottos, syndics, having made a report to the court, requested that you serve as riparius of the said village […] and, after discussion had taken place on their requests, the office asked that a judicial order also be issued to you concerning this. Accordingly, receiving this order, apply yourself to the said duty, having also the customary public assistance serving you, with all zeal, showing yourself blameless to the court in every respect. For by doing this you will free yourself from many dangers. Farewell.
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† Farewell.
A riparius was a local police official responsible for public order and arrests; the Greek verb used is a derived form of this Latin title. The document is a prostagma, a formal judicial order.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordre de Dioscore). 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.cair.masp.3.67281
Φλαύιος Ἰωάννης Μηνᾶς Ἰουστινιανὸς Δημοσθένης Στράτων Ἠλίας Θεόδωρος Διόσκορος ὁ μεγαλοπρεπέστατος ἄρχων τῆς Θηβαίων ἐπαρχίας, Ἀπολλῶτι Ἰσακίου. οἱ τὸ κοινὸν πληροῦντες Ἀφροδίτης τῆς κώμης, διὰ Χαρισίου καὶ Βόττου συνδίκων, ἀναφορᾷ χρησάμενοι πρὸς τὸ δικαστήριον, ἐξῄτησάν σε ῥιπα…