عصابة بيريخوس Πύρριχος و هيراكليوس Ἡράκλειοςفي إحدى قرى الفيوم عام 113 ق. م

الملخص EN

The Gang of Pyrrhichos and Herakleios of Egypt in 133 B.

C.

On the 8th of Mesore in the year 113 BC, a group of complaints (numbered five complaints) were submitted to Menches, komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris, from the cultivators of Crown land due to the losses they sustained as a result of the attack by a gang of armed thieves on their homes, and their theft of many different things from them, while they are busy working on the land.

This gang was headed by Pyrrhichos son of Dionysios, one of the katoikoi hippeis, and Herakleios son of Poseidippos, an inhabitant of the said village, and they were accompanied by many other persons armed with swords.

Hence, this research will focus on everything related to this gang through the five complaints filed against it, in an attempt to know the members of this gang formation, their methods of attack and their tools, In the end, this research will try to find out the reasons for the emergence of this gang, to find out whether this gang was the result of certain circumstances, or if it was a gang of habitual criminals while clarifying the state's position towards it.