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p.cair.zen.4.59620 248 - 239 v.Chr.Arsinoites (?)
Draft of petition to the king via HGV-meta
Draft petition to the king concerning a disputed house held by Arsinoe. Heavily corrected draft of a petition to the king, written on behalf of Zenon, about ownership of a house occupied by a woman named Arsinoe. The petitioner says his servant Eutychos built the house, but Arsinoe, the mother of Eutychos' children, induced him to flee to the Sarapieion at Memphis and misled the strategos Agenor; he asks that the house be judged his if Arsinoe cannot prove her claim. machine translation
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TM 1252.
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- Draft of petition to the king HGV-meta Arsinoites (?)248 - 239 v.Chr.
- Draft of a petition to the king APIS-papyrus Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philade248 - 239 B.C.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
[…]…ν[…]
[…]γεγραφεν[…]α…
[…]περ Εὔτυχος περὶ τούτων […]…[…]
εἶναι καὶ δεδαπανηκέναι εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν
καὶ ἐπιδείξειν περὶ τούτων καὶ προστάξαντος
Ἀγήνορος ἕως τοῦ ἐπιδεῖξαι Εὔτυχον[…]…[…]
συνέχεσθαι τοὺς κριθέντας, φθαρεὶς Εὔτυχος
ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινόης διὰ τὸ καὶ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῆι συνεῖναι
καὶ τέκνα αὐτῶι ὑπάρχειν ἐξ αὐτῆς
τῶν τε ὑπαρχόντων τινὰ τῶν ἐν τῆι οἰκίαι
μετέφερον ἐν τῆι ἐπιούσηι νυκτί, ὧν καὶ οἱ φυλακῖται
ἐπελάβοντο,
αὐτός τε ἀνεχώρησεν καὶ ἔστιν ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἐν τῶι
ἐν Μέμφει Σαραπιείωι σιτοδοτούμενος ὑπὸ Ἀρσινόης, τῆς
ὕστερόν τε ἐμβαλούσης αὐτῆς ἔντευξιν φαμένης
ἐμὲ ὡρίσθαι παρέξεσθαι τούς τε
οἰκοδόμους καὶ παρʼ ὧν τὴν πλίνθον καὶ τὰ ξύλα ἠγόρακεν Εὔτυχος καὶ τοὺς ὀνηλάτας
χειρογραφοῦντας,
ἐμοῦ οὐχ ὡρισμένου, διὸ παραλογισθεὶς Ἀγήνωρ καὶ α…ουθα[…]
τῆι Ἀρσινόηι φάσει γράφει Κλειτορίωι ἀνακαλεσάμενόν με
συντάξαι ἐφʼ οἷς ὥρισμαι παρασχέσθαι χειρογραφοῦντας τοὺς
ἀνθρώπους, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ χειρογραφῶσιν, μηθενὶ
ἐπιτρέπειν ἀποβιάζεσθαι τὴν Ἀρσινόην. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ,
ἐπειδὴ ὁ μὲν
φθαρεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀρσινόης ἀνακεχώρηκεν ἵνα μὴ ἐνδείξηται
ὡς ἔστιν αὑτοῦ ἡ οἰκία
[…]……ένη ἀνακαλέσηται
[v]
αὐτή τε οὐκ ἐπιδέδεικται[…] διακοῦσαι ἡμῶν καὶ ἐὰν ……
μὴ ἐνδείξηται ἡ Ἀρσινόη ὡς ἔστιν αὑτῆς ἡ οἰκία καθάπερ ἐγρα[…]
γράφει διὰ τῆς πρώτης ἐντεύξεως, εἶναι ἐμὴν τὴν οἰκίαν
ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ διὰ σέ, βασιλεῦ, τοῦ δικαίου τύχω.
εὐτύχει.
Ἀρσινόη.Translations (1)
[recto]
[…] […]
[…] has written […]
[…] Eutychos concerning these matters […]
to be and to have spent on the building
and that he would show proof about these things, and Agenor having ordered
that until Eutychos had shown proof […] those judged should be detained, Eutychos, corrupted
by Arsinoe because he had formerly lived with her
and had children by her, they carried off
some of the possessions in the house during the following night, which the guards
seized,
and he himself withdrew and is still now in the
Sarapieion at Memphis, being fed by Arsinoe; and
later she submitted a petition, saying
that I had undertaken to produce the
builders and those from whom Eutychos had bought the bricks and the timber, and the donkey-drivers,
as signing witnesses,
although I had made no such undertaking; wherefore Agenor, misled […]
by Arsinoe's statement, writes to Kleitorios to summon me
and order me, in accordance with what I had undertaken, to produce the men as signing witnesses,
and if they do not sign, to allow no one
to use force against Arsinoe. I beg you therefore, O king,
since Eutychos,
corrupted by Arsinoe, has withdrawn so as not to show
that the house is his,
[…] summon
[verso]
and she herself has not shown proof […] to hear us, and if
Arsinoe does not show that the house is hers, as
she writes in her first petition, that the house be mine,
so that I too, through you, O king, may obtain justice.
Farewell.
Arsinoe.
Connections
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Arsinoite nome
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 1252 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;4;59620 tier-1
- HGV-Text 1252 tier-1
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