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Petition concerning the wounding of the slave Nikephoros TM 869381Arsinoites (?)II v.Chr.

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Fragment of a petition, apparently about violence, concerning a slave named Nikephoros who was wounded in the left foot. It mentions the collector of debts owed to foreigners, officials of the rank of 'first friends', and a Nikolaos described as a Persian of the epigone. It probably dates to the 2nd century BC and may come from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] to the praktor of foreigners (xenika) [...] of Antipatros [...] of the first friends and the eisangeleis and [...] of my slave Nikephoros [...] having received and having been wounded [...] left foot a wound [...] of Pachon of the 1st year [...] Nikolaos, Persian of the [epigone] [...] the slave from the [...] of the wound according to [...] to be in a (?) condition [...]

The 'praktor xenikon' was a Ptolemaic official who enforced debts and judgments involving foreigners. 'Persian of the epigone' was a legal status designation, not necessarily an ethnic origin.

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

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

[… ? lines lost …] […] ξενικῶν πράκτορι […]εως τοῦ Ἀντιπάτρου αντι[…] τῶν πρώτων φίλων καὶ εἰσαγγελέων καί […]ν τοῦ οἰκέτου μου Νικηφόρου […]ς εἰληφότος καὶ τετραυματισμένου […] ἀριστερὸν πόδα τραυμα […] τοῦ Παχὼν τοῦ πρώτου ἔτους […] Νικολάου Πέρσου τῆς ἐπιγονῆς […]τον οἰκέτην ἀ…