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p.cair.isid.68 309 - 310 (?)Karanis (Arsinoites)

Petition to a Praepositus Pagi via HGV-meta

Petition of Isidoros against village officials over liturgy nominations. Petition from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios of Karanis to the praepositus of the 5th pagus of the Arsinoite nome. He complains that village officials, including the secretary Achillas, protect others and have unfairly nominated him to the liturgy of sitologos and now to the collection of chaff, though he already bears heavy taxes on over 140 arouras, much of it barren. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]… πραιποσίτῳ ε πάγου Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἰσιδώρου Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος τοῦ ὑπὸ σὲ πάγου. τὰ ἐπὶ ἀνατροπὴν καὶ φυγαδείαν γινόμενα ἡμῖν τοῖς μετρίοις οἱ νόμοι κωλύουσι, καὶ αὐτὸς τοίνυν μέτριος παντελῶς τυγχάνων βίαν καὶ παρανομίαν πάσχω ὑπὸ Ἥρωνος καὶ Παησίου καὶ Ὡρίωνος καὶ Ἀχιλλᾶ γραμματέως τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης Καρανίδος. τούτων γὰρ σκεπαζόντων …[…]ου ἄνδρας δεκατρεῖς μηκέτι τῷ καθόλου παρεστῶτας τῇ κώμῃ ἐμὲ τόσας σεσωματισμένον ὑπὲρ τὰς ἀρούρας ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα ὑπὲρ ὧν οὐκ ὀλίγα τελῶ τῷ ταμείῳ μάλιστα τοῦ πλείστου μέρους αὐτῶν ἐν χέρσῳ οὐσῶν εἰσήγγειλαν εἰς σιτολογίαν ἄχρι ἐὰν ὑπόχρεος γένωμαι εἰς τὰ ἐνδεήματα τῶν ἐν ἀπόρῳ τυγχανόντων ὀνομάτων. οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν σκεπάσαντες Παήσιον ὃν ἡ χώρα ἐκάλεσεν εἰς ἀπαίτησιν ἀχύρου πάλιν ἐμὲ πειρῶνται τοῦ βαλεῖν ἀντὶ τοῦ Παησίου ἴσως ἀργυρολογήσαντες ἐκεῖνον σὺν τῇ ἐμῇ ἀνατροπῇ. δεῖξαι γὰρ ἔχω μερίσαντας αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ κώμῃ […]……[…] καὶ προσαν[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[To …], praepositus of the 5th pagus of the Arsinoite nome, from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis in the pagus under you. The laws forbid what is done to us humble people tending to our ruin and flight, and I too, being an altogether humble man, suffer violence and lawlessness at the hands of Heron and Paesis and Horion and Achillas, secretary of the same village of Karanis. For while these men are shielding […] thirteen men who are no longer present in the village at all, they nominated me for the office of sitologos, though I am already registered for so many arouras, more than 140, for which I pay no small amounts to the treasury, especially since the greater part of them is uncultivated land, with the aim that I become liable for the deficits of the names that are without means. Nonetheless, now again, shielding Paesis, whom the district called up for the collection of chaff, they are trying to put me in place of Paesis, perhaps having extracted money from him, to my ruin. For I can show that they apportioned in the village […] and […] [… lines lost …]

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