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p.cair.isid.70 ca. 310Karanis (Arsinoites)
Petition to a Strategos via HGV-meta
Petition of Isidoros against Akotas over illegal demands for gold and silver. Petition from Aurelius Isidoros of Karanis to the strategos Aurelius Chrestos, complaining that Akotas son of Germanos illegally demanded gold and silver from him for land he never farmed or leased. He recalls an earlier petition on which a previous strategos acted, and asks that Akotas be brought before the strategos. Written around AD 310 in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation
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- Petition to a Strategos HGV-meta Karanis (Arsinoites)ca. 310
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Transcription
Αὐρηλίῳ Χρήστῳ στρατηγῷ διὰ Αὐρηλίου Νείλου
ἐνάρχου πρυτάνεως διαδόχου
παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἰσιδώρου Πτολεμαίου ἀπὸ κώμης Καλανίδος
τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ἀνόμως καὶ ῥιψοκινδύνως
ἀπαιτηθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἀκοτᾶ υἱοῦ Γερμανοῦ χρυσὸν καὶ ἄσημον
ὑπὲρ ἧς αὐτὸς ἔχει ἐν γεωργίᾳ γῆς μηδέποτέ μου
γεωργήσαντος ἢ μισθωσαμένου ἀνατρέπεται ἡ ἰδία.
οὐκ ἀφησύχασα, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐνγράφως διὰ βιβλιδίων
ἐμαρτυρόμην παρὰ τῇ τάξει τῆς στρατηγίας. ἀκόλουθα πράττων ὁ στρατηγὸς ἐπεκαλέσατο αὐτόν.
συνενέκλεισεν ἅμα μοι καταγνοὺς τοῦ ἀντιδίκου.
εἶτα ἐν ἀποδημίᾳ αὐτοῦ γενομένου τῇ σῇ
ἐπιεικείᾳ εἰ θέλεις εἴρξας αὐτὸν ἐκ σοῦ χαις…
ὅσας ἐὰν τιμήσῃς Ἀκοτᾶν […]λαι καὶ εφυσ…τ
ἐπιστῆις τῆς φ[…]καστης τὴν ἐπιστρέφειαν
ἐφʼ οἷς πλέω κ…[…]…ω ἐπιδίδωμί σοι τάδε ἀξιῶν
ἀχθῆναι αὐτὸν ἐπὶ σοῦ καὶ αμμονκ…ουσμυι
ἐπαχθῆναι εκ…ινδο…μιλω…ιτ μείζονα.Translations (1)
To Aurelius Chrestos, strategos, through Aurelius Neilos, prytanis in office, deputy,
from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis of the Arsinoite nome.
Having been lawlessly and recklessly pressed by Akotas son of Germanos for gold and uncoined silver on account of the land which he himself holds in cultivation, land that I have never farmed or leased, my own property is being ruined. I did not keep quiet, but also protested in writing by petitions before the office of the strategia. The strategos, acting accordingly, summoned him. He shut him up together with me, having condemned my adversary. Then, when he went abroad, to your clemency, if you please, having confined him, from you […] whatever amounts you assess against Akotas […] and […] you may apply the […] attention […] on account of which more […] I submit this to you, asking that he be brought before you and […] be imposed […] greater.
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- TM-Text 10401 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.isid;;70 tier-1
- HGV-Text 10401 tier-1
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