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p.amh.2.82 Arsinoites

Petition to the Praefect via HGV-meta

Petition to the prefect against appointment as court advocate. A petition to the prefect of Egypt from a former chief priest of Arsinoe, son of Didas (?), who complains that the town council elected him in his absence as an advocate attached to the prefect's court, though he was a farmer, barely literate and had never held civic office. Having missed the deadline for appeal, he had protested to the council through its prytanis Athenaios and now asks the prefect to intervene. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]βειωι τῶι διασημοτάτωι ἐπάρχωι Αἰγύπτου παρὰ[…] Διδαροῦ ἀρχιερατεύσαντος τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως. ὅτι τοὺς λογογράφους τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν βουλῶν χειροτονουμένους εἰς τὸ προσεδρεύειν τῷ σῷ ἀχράντῳ δικαστηρίῳ, ἡγεμὼν δέσποτα, καὶ γραμμάτων ἐπιστήμονας εἶναι προσήκει καὶ ἐκ τῆς βουλείας ὁρμωμένους οὐ λέληθεν τὴν σὴν ἀνδρείαν. ἐμὲ γοῦν ἐν […]διατρίβοντα καὶ γεωργίᾳ σχολάζοντα ἐν τῇ κρατίστῃ βούλῃ τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως τινὲς ἀπόντα εἵλαντο εἰς λογογραφίαν ἀνεπιτήδειον ὄντα καὶ γράμματα σχεδὸν ἐπιστάμενον οὐδὲ πολιτευσάμενόν ποτε. καὶ μετὰ ἡμέρας[…]ἀνελθὼν ἐπὶ τῆς μητροπόλεως καὶ τοῦτο μαθὼν οὐδὲ ἔκκλητον ποιεῖσθαι ἐδυνήθην τῷ καὶ τὰς ἡμέρας τὰς νενομισμένας, δεῖ γὰρ παρὰ τὸν […]λέγειν τὰ ἀληθῆ, παρεληλυθέναι ἀλλὰ ἐπιστάλματι χρησάμενος ἐνέτυχον[…]τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ διὰ τοῦ ἐνάρχου πρυτάνεως Ἀθηναίου […]ἀγορανομήσαντος γυμνασιαρχήσαντος βουλευτοῦ σημαίνων ὡς […] καθέστηκα ὅπως διορθωσάμενοι ἑαυτοὺς[…] […]αὐτοῖς πέπρακται τὸν ἀντʼ ἐμοῦ ἐπιτήδειον[…] […]κασιν. διʼ ὅπερ κατέφυγον ἐπὶ τὸ σὸν μεγαλεῖον[…] […]μοῦντας τοῖς ἐνταῦθα τοὺς δυναμένους τ[…] […]θῆναι κληθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ σοῦ μεγαλείου κα[…] […]ν προσεδρεύσω τῷ σῷ ἀχράντῳ δικαστηρίῳ[…] […]ἐπιδέδωκα. ἔτους[…] Φαῶφι[…] ε[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To […]bius, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, from […] son of Didas (?), former chief priest of the city of the Arsinoites. That the advocates appointed by the councils to attend your spotless court, lord prefect, ought both to be men of learning and to come from the council class has not escaped your Excellency. Yet while I was living in […] and occupied with farming, certain persons in the most excellent council of the city of the Arsinoites elected me in my absence to the office of advocate, although I am unsuited and scarcely know letters and have never held civic office. And after […] days, having gone up to the metropolis and learned of this, I was not even able to lodge an appeal, because the customary days, for one must tell the truth before […], had passed; but using a written notice I petitioned […] the most excellent council through the prytanis in office, Athenaios, […] former agoranomos, former gymnasiarch, councillor, informing them that […] I am […], so that correcting themselves […] what had been done by them, [they might appoint] a suitable person in my place […] they have […]. For this reason I have taken refuge with your Magnificence […] those here who are able […] to be summoned by your Magnificence […] I shall attend your spotless court […]. I have submitted this. [Year …], Phaophi […] […] […]

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