DDbDP transcription: sb.20.15090 [xml]
AD 543 Aegyptus Arcadia (Oxyrhnchos?)
1ομων̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣[ -ca.?- ]
ἔτους οὐκ ἠνέσχετο πρὸς τὰ σύμφων\α/
τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ μισθοτικοῦ(*) ἐξακολουθῆσαι,
ἀλλʼ ἀνεχώρησεν ἐκ τῆς ἐργασίας
5τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἐργαστηρίου. διὸ παρακαλῶ
τὴν σὴν παίδευσιν κελεῦσαι
τοῦτων(*) παραστῆναι καὶ ἀκροάσασθαι
τῆς μεταξὺ ἡμῶν ὑποθέσεως
τύπον τὸν παρϊστάμενον αὐτῇ
10ἐπʼ(*) ἡμῖν πα[ρα]σχεῖν, λογιότατε(*)
ἔκδικε κύριε.
——
βασιλείας τοῦ θ̣ειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεσ-
τάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαουίου
15Ἰουστινιανοῦ τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου
καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ιϛ τοῖς
μετὰ τὴν ὑπ[α]τίαν(*) Φλαουίου Βασιλίου
τοῦ λαμπρ(οτάτου) Ἐ̣πεὶφ ιζ ἰνδικ(τί)ο(νος) ϛ.
Editorial History; All History; (detailed)
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APIS Translation (English)
"... year he refused to adhere to the rules of his employment but walked away from his work in my workshop. Therefore I call upon you, Your learnedness, to ensure his appearance and to listen to the cause of the dispute between us in a form which is suited to please you, highly-learned defensor and master.;Under the reign of our most divine and honorable Master Flavius Justinianus, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, in year 16, under the consuls after the consulate of the most illustrious Flavius Basilius, on the 17th Epeiph of the 6th indiction."