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| Inventory number: |
P.Oslo inv. 1482 |
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Background and Physical Properties
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Pap |
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| Size: |
20.6 x 8.7 cm. |
| Lines: |
32 |
| Publication side: |
Recto, the Verso is blank |
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| Date: |
IIIrd century A.D. |
| Origin: |
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt |
| Provenance: |
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt |
| Acquisition: |
Purchased 1934 from Maurice Nahman, Cairo |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Genre: |
Documentary |
| Author: |
Aurelius A[-], alias Aphynchis |
| Title / Type of text: |
Petition |
| Content: |
Petition to the police from Aurelius A..., also called Aphynchis, with a complaint of having been treated with insolence and assaulted by a certain Didyme, wife of Agathos Daimon, the cook |
| Subject headings: |
Petition; Complaint; Assault; Police; Profession |
| Persons: |
Aurelius A, alias Aphynchis;
Aurelius Alexander, police;
Didyme, wife of Agathos Daimon;
Agathos Daimon, husband of Didyme, mageiros |
| Geographica: |
Oxyrhynchus; Oxyrhynchite nome |
| Translation: |
To Aurelius Alexander, of the police magistrates, from Aurelius A[---] alias Aphynchis, former exhibitor of games in the city of the Oxyrhynchites. 'Yesterday evening a certain Didyme, the wife of Agathos Daimon, the cook, passing my house and finding me standing there with our family, treated us with insolence, using speakable and unspeakable expressions - a woman abundantly furnished with the utmost shamelessness and effrontery. Thereupon, when I stopped her, advising her to keep off from us, she leapt upon me, and, being distracted in her senses, even stretched out her hands and smote me, and railed furiously at some of my daughter's sons, whom I called to witness, and not only at them, but even at one of the officials of our city who was present.
'Having suffered so much, I, the victim of the assault, deliver to you this petition, asking you to give orders that she shall be brought before you, so that I may experience your beneficence toward all men. Farewell.' |
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| Series and Volume: |
JEA 40 30-32 |
| First Editor: |
Eitrem S-Amundsen L |
| Year: |
1954 |
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SB VI 9421 |
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