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p.cair.zen.4.59621 248 - 239 v.Chr.Arsinoites (?)

Draft of petition to the king via HGV-meta

Draft petition to the king about a disputed house at Philadelphia. Draft of a petition to the king, probably by Zenon, concerning a dispute with a woman named Arsinoe over a house at Philadelphia that she claimed to have built on a vacant plot. The petitioner asks that the strategos Agenor re-examine the case, since the testimony of his slave Eutychos had failed him, and award him the house if Arsinoe cannot prove her claim. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] […]ᾠκοδομηκέναι λαβοῦσα τόπον ψιλὸν[…] καὶ εἰσανηλωκέναι εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν[…] […]Φιλαδελφείαι ἐπʼ Ἀγήνορος τοῦ στρατηγοῦ καὶ Ἀρσινόη οὔτε τοὺς ε…[…]…[…] […]… οὔτε ὡς ᾠκοδομήκει τὴν οἰκίαν, τοῦ τε Εὐτύχου φαμένου[…] […]οἰκοδομὴν καὶ περὶ τούτων βαλομένου εἴς τε τοὺς οἰκοδόμους καὶ τοὺς[…] […] […]οἰκοδόμος καὶ ὁ τὰ ξύλα ἀποδόμενος κα[…]…[…] […]τὴν τιμὴν καὶ τοὺς μισθοὺς εἰληφέναι παρʼ Εὐτύχου τοῦ παιδός μου κο[…] […]ἀναχωρήσαντος περὶ τῆς βολῆς ταύτης, διὸ παραλογισθεὶς Ἀγήνωρ[…] […]ἐμὲ ὡρίσθαι ταῦτα, γράφει Κλειτορίωι ἀνακαλεσάμενόν με συντάξαι[…] […]βασιλεῦ, προστάξαι Ἀγήνορι τῶι στρατηγῶι ἐπισκεψάμενον …[…] […]αι ὡς εἴληφεν τὸν τόπον ἐκ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ[…] […] τὴν πλίνθον καὶ τὰ ξύλα καὶ τοὺς οἰκοδόμους παρασχέσθαι μαρτυροῦντας αὐτῆι εναμ[…] […] ἐρημοῦμαι δὲ καὶ ἐγὼ μαρτυρίας περὶ τούτων, ὅπως πάλιν διακούσας[…] […]ους, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἐνδείξηται, εἶναι τὴν οἰκίαν ἐμήν, ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ[…] […]θέντα κρίνηι ὡς ἂν αὐτῶι φαίνηται, ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ διὰ σέ, βασιλεῦ, τοῦ δικαίου τύχω.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[...] [...] (claiming) to have built (the house), having taken a vacant plot [...] ⟦[...] of the architect Theodoros⟧ and to have spent on the building [...] [...] at Philadelphia before Agenor the strategos, and Arsinoe neither the [...] [...] nor that she had built the house, while Eutychos said [...] [...] the building, and having cast (the responsibility?) for these things onto the builders and the [...] [...] builder and the man who sold the timber [...] [...] to have received the price and the wages from Eutychos my slave [...] [...] having withdrawn concerning this charge, wherefore Agenor, misled, [...] [...] that these things had been determined by me, writes to Kleitorios ordering him to summon me [...] [...] O king, to order Agenor the strategos, having examined [...] [...] that she received the plot from the royal [...] [...] the bricks and the timber, and to produce the builders as witnesses for her [...] I too am without witnesses on these matters, so that, having heard again [...] [...] and if she does not prove it, the house shall be mine, so that I too [...] [...] he may judge as seems best to him, so that I too through you, O king, may obtain justice.

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Found at Arsinoite nome

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