Fragment of a petition from Zoidous son of Mysthes to Flavius Potamon, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, apparently reporting a night-time break-in at Karanis in which doors were broken and something was taken from a storeroom. A Roman citizen, Gaius Julius Apollinarius, and Alexandria are also mentioned.
In English machine translation
To Flavius Potamon, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Zoidous son of Mysthes […]
of Gaius Julius Apollinarius […]
[…] in Alexandria […]
in the village of Karanis […]
certain persons came upon [it] by night […]
they broke the doors […]
[…] from the storeroom (?) […]
[…] I petitioned (?) […]
[…]
[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
The petitioner's relationship to Gaius Julius Apollinarius, possibly an absent landowner living in Alexandria, is lost in the gaps. The strategos's title and division are restored by the editor.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to a Strategos (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.