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p.cair.isid.67 299Karanis (Arsinoites)
Petition to a Prefect of Egypt via HGV-meta
Petition to the prefect about arson of a threshing floor at Karanis. Petition from Aurelius Isidoros of Karanis to Aelius Publius, prefect of Egypt, about the arson of his threshing floor holding the harvest of 11 arouras. He names three men as culprits, identified through inquiries with village officials, and seeks the prefect's help. Written in AD 299 at Karanis. machine translation
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TM 10397.
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- Petition to a Prefect of Egypt HGV-meta Karanis (Arsinoites)299
- Petition to a Prefect of Egypt APIS-papyrus Kom Aushim (Karanis)299 A.D.
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Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
Αἰλίωι Πουβλίωι τῶι διασημοτάτωι ἐπάρχωι Αἰγύπτου
παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἰσιδώρου Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ κώμης Κηρανίδος
τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. πρᾶγμα δεόμενον τῆς σῆς ἐξετάσεως
διὰ ταύτης μου τῆς ἀξιώσεως, ἡγεμὼν κύριε, παρατίθημι
τῇ σῇ ἀρετῇ εὔελπις ὢν βοηθείας τῆς ἀπὸ σοῦ τυχεῖν. τὸ δὲ πρᾶγμα οὕτως ἔχει. ἁλωνίας μου ἐπικιμένης ἀπὸ συνκομιδῆς
ἀρουρῶν ἕνδεκα περὶ πεδίον τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης Κερανίδος
αὐτός τε ἐγὼ γενόμενος ἐπὶ τὴν ταύτης αὐτοψίαν πρὸς τὸ τὴν τῶν
γεωργικῶν ἔργων ἀπαλλαγὴν ποιήσασθαι κατὰ τὴν κζ τοῦ Μεσορὴ μηνὸς
τοῦ διελθόντος ἔτους εὗρον τὴν προειρημένην ἁλωνίαν ὡς ὑπὸ
κακούργων ἐνπρησθεῖσαν καὶ τιδ…ου…[…]ειν τῇ ἀκολουθίᾳ χρησάμενος βιβλία ἐνμάρτυρα […]… ταῦτα
ἐπιδέδωκα τῇ στρατηγίᾳ ἀξιώσας ὑπηρέτηνἀποσταλῆναι πρὸς τὸ
κατελθόντα ἔνθα τὸ ἀτόπημα ἐγένετο καὶ ἐπιδόντα προσφωνῆσαι, καθὸ προσεφώνησεν τοῦτο. πολυπραγμονοῦντος δέ μου ἔμαθον
ἐκ τεκμηρίων τοὺς τοῦτο τολμήσαντας, λέγω δὴ Ἀκοτᾶν υἱὸν
Γερμανοῦ καὶ Χαιρήμωνα υἱὸν Πτολεμαίου Ἁρβα…ου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς
κώμης Κηρανίδος καὶ Ἥρωνα υἱὸν Μουρανοῦἀπὸ κώμης Πτολεμαίδος Νέας,
πυνθανόμενος περὶ τούτου τῶν τῆς κώμης δημοσίων Σώτα καὶ Λεωνίδου τίνες ἂν εἴησαν οἱ κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην τούτῳ
τῷ τόπῳ παρεμφανέντες, οἵτινες αὐτὰ τὰ ὀνόματα ὑπέβαλον,
καὶ περὶ τούτου ἕτερα βιβλία ἐμαρτυρόμην[…]…[…]
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
To Aelius Publius, the most distinguished prefect of Egypt,
from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
A matter requiring your examination I lay before your excellence by this my petition, lord prefect, being in good hope of obtaining help from you. The matter is as follows. My threshing floor was piled with the harvest of eleven arouras in the plain of the same village of Karanis, and when I myself went to inspect it in order to complete the agricultural work on the 27th of the month Mesore of the past year, I found the aforesaid threshing floor set on fire by criminals, and […] following the proper procedure I submitted (?) attested documents […] these to the office of the strategos, asking that an assistant be sent to go down to where the outrage took place and, having inspected it, to report, as he did report this. On making inquiries I learned from evidence who had dared to do this, namely Akotas son of Germanos and Chairemon son of Ptolemaios son of Harba[…] from the same village of Karanis, and Heron son of Mouranos from the village of Ptolemais Nea, when I inquired about this of the public officials of the village, Sotas and Leonides, who might have been present at that place on that day; they submitted these very names, and concerning this I filed other attested documents […]
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- TM-Text 10397 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.isid;;67 tier-1
- HGV-Text 10397 tier-1
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