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p.cair.zen.3.59351 Arsinoites

Petition from Zenon to the king via HGV-meta

Petition from Zenon to the king against Herakleides over gold drachmas. A petition from Zenon to King Ptolemy complaining that Herakleides, to whom he had given 400 drachmas in gold so that Herakleides could pay 400 copper drachmas to the treasury on his behalf, refuses to return the gold even though Zenon has offered the copper. Zenon asks the king to have the strategos Agenor summon Herakleides and compel him to settle. It comes from the Arsinoite nome, around 243 BC. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ζήνων. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ἡρακλείδου· δόντος γάρ μου αὐτῶι ἐν τῶι γ ἔτει διὰ Δημέου χρυσίου δραχμὰς υ, ὅπως διαγράψῃ ὑπέρ μου εἰς τὸ βασιλικὸν χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς υ, ἐφʼ ὧι κομισάμενος παρά μου ἀποδώσει μοι, καὶ ἐμοῦ ἀποδιδόντος αὐτῶι καὶ ἀπαιτοῦντος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἀποδέδωκεν, ἀλλὰ παρείλκυκέν με ἕως τοῦ νῦν. δέομαι οὖν σου, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, προστάξαι Ἀγήνορι τῶι στρατηγῶι ἀνακαλέσαι αὐτὸν καὶ, ἐὰν ἦι ἀληθῆ, ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτὸν κομισάμενον τὰς υ δραχμὰς τοῦ χαλκοῦ ἀποδοῦναί μοι τὰς υ δραχμὰς τοῦ χρυσίου, καὶ ὦ διὰ σὲ τοῦ δικαίου τετευχώς. εὐτύχει.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Zenon. I am wronged by Herakleides. For when I gave him in year 3 ⟦…⟧ through Demeas 400 drachmas of gold, so that he might pay on my behalf to the royal treasury 400 drachmas of copper, on condition that, after receiving them from me, he would give back to me (the gold), and although I have been paying him back and demanding (the gold) from him, he has not given it back, but has put me off until now. I therefore ask you, if it please you, to order Agenor the strategos to summon him and, if this is true, to compel him, after receiving the 400 drachmas of copper, to give back to me the 400 drachmas of gold, and so through you I may obtain justice. Farewell.

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Found at Arsinoite nome

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