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Petition from Panephremmis son of Paous, an elder priest of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, to the village official Setabous, reporting a night burglary of his two-towered house in which thieves entered through an upper window. He asks that the culprits be found and he be compensated; the list of stolen items is lost.
Neos Sebastos was an honorific name for the month Hathyr. A dipyrgia was a house with two towers, a common building type in Fayum villages.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Σεταβοῦτι ἡγουμένωι Σοκνεπαίου Νήσου τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Πανεφρόμμιος τοῦ Παοῦτος πρεσβυτέρου ἱερέως τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης· νυκτὶ τῇ φερούσῃ εἰς τὴν δ τοῦ μηνὸς Νέου Σεβαστοῦ ἐπιβαλόντες τινὲς λῃστρικῶι τρόπωι τοῦ δ ἔτους Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ εἰς τὴν ὑπάρχουσάν μο…
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