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Petition of a dike-overseer to the prefect of Egypt about the Kynopolite dikes TM 78594Oxyrhynchos

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A petition to the prefect of Egypt, Aurelius Ammonius, from Aurelius Diogenes also called Eulogios, a former magistrate of Oxyrhynchus serving as dike-overseer for the Kynopolite nome. He describes his tireless work on the dikes with Lykarion, the appointment of water-guards and the handover to council appointees, and stresses that he never left the dikes; the request itself is lost.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] To Aurelius Ammonius, vir perfectissimus, prefect of Egypt, from Aurelius Diogenes also called Eulogios, former magistrate of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, dike-overseer […] Having been entrusted with the supervision of the Kynopolite dikes, my lord prefect, […] holding in my breast fear of your prefecture, I did not cease night and day […] together with Lykarion, former magistrate of the same city of the Kynopolites, until […] […], and having appointed the water-guards, I handed everything over to those chosen by the council […] together with the man ordered to share the supervision with me. Since, then, […] […] the station (?) of Takona happens to be, through which more continually […] […] to pass through and that […] be made ready […] […] and what happens and […] to be released (?) with great speed and because of the public […] But to be absent from the dikes because of fear of you, without […] […] I did not allow myself. For this reason […] […] […] [Fragment B] […] […] […] […] […]

A chomatepeiktes was a liturgical official charged with urging on and supervising dike work. The text breaks off before the actual request.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition of a Dike Supervisor). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.65.4492

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[FrA] Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀμμωνίῳ τῷ διασημοτάτῳ ἐπάρχῳ Αἰγύπτου Αὐρήλιος Διογένης ὁ καὶ Εὐλόγιος ἄρξας τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως χωματεπείκτης …[…] τὴν τῶν Κυνοπολιτικῶν χωμάτων ἔπειξιν ἐγχειρισθεὶς ἡγεμὼν κύριε[…] ἐν στέρνοις ἔχων τὸν τῆς ἡγεμονίας φόβον οὐ διέλειπον νύκτωρ τε καὶ μεθʼ ἡμέρας…