One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 397540
Petition about assault and theft of clothing TM 397540Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt184 A.D.
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End of a petition from Karanis complaining that the petitioner was beaten with many blows and had his clothes carried off. The petitioner asks that the attackers be brought before the official and that justice be done. It is dated to year 27 of Commodus, in the month Phaophi.
In English machine translation
[… ? lines lost …]
[…] I do not know […]
me […]
and they struck me
with very many blows, carrying off
also my clothes.
Therefore I ask that
they be brought before you and that I obtain from you
justice.
Year 27 of Aurelius
Commodus Antoninus
the lord, Phaophi […]
The museum record gives AD 184, but year 27 of Commodus, counted in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, would fall in autumn AD 186. The beginning of the petition, with the names of the petitioner and the official, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Complaint about Violence and Robbery). 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.mich.2.18
[… ? lines lost …] …[…] ἀγνοῶ …[…] μοι κατα… α[…] καὶ ἔπληξάν με πληγαῖς πλείσταις βαστάξαντες καὶ τὰ ἱμάτιά μου. ὅθεν ἀξιῶ ἀχθῆναι αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ τυχεῖν τῶν ἀπὸ σοῦ δικαίων. ἔτους κζ Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ κυρίου Φαῶφι […]