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p.col.8.209rpdupl 11. Okt. 3Theadelphia (Arsinoites)
Petition to the Basilikos Grammateus via HGV-meta
Petition of a public farmer against the village scribe's secretary. A petition from Marsisouchos, a farmer of public land at Theadelphia, to the royal scribe Asklepiades, complaining that Soterichos, secretary of the village scribe, had him arrested without cause, took his cloak and kept six years of his poll-tax receipts, and hindered his sowing. He asks that Soterichos be summoned, ordered to leave him alone and made to return his property. Written 11 October AD 3. machine translation
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- Petition to the Basilikos Grammateus HGV-meta Theadelphia (Arsinoites)11. Okt. 3
- Petition [October 11, 3 AD] APIS-papyrus Theadelphia (Arsinoites)3 CE
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· Greek
Transcription
Ἀσκληπιάδηι βασιλικῶι
γραμματεῖ
παρὰ Μαρσισούχου τοῦ Μαρρείους τῶν ἀπὸ Θεαδελφείας
τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος δημοσίου γεωργοῦ. ἐν τῶι ἐνεστῶτι λγ ἔτει Καίσαρος ἐκκεχώρημαι ὑπὸ Πνεφερῶτος τοῦ
Τιθουγήους δημοσίου γεωργοῦ τὰς ἐν τῶι ὀνόματι
αὐτοῦ περὶ τὴν κώμην δημοσίας γῆς ἀρούρας κδ, ὧν
καὶ ἀντιλαβόμενος καὶ χωματίσας καὶ ἀπὸ μέρους
λιμνάσας ταύτας τῆς εἰς τὸ
αὐτὸ ἔτος κατασπορᾶς, τινί
ποτε τῶν λόγων Σωτήριχος
γραμματεὺς τοῦ τῆς κώμης κωμογραμματέως, διαπεμψάμενος τὸν πράκτορα καὶ τὸν φυλακίτην εἰς
τὰ ἐδάφη, ἀνέσπασάν με
καὶ παρέδωκαν εἰς τὸν
τοῦ Σωτηρίχου λόγον, ἁπλῶς μηδέν μου ὀφείλοντος, καὶ οὐ πρότερον ἀπελύθην εἰ μὴ μεθʼ ἱκανοῦ. ὁ
δʼ αὐτὸς Σωτήριχος ἀπηνέγκατό μου ἱμάτιον καὶ ἐνεπόδισέν με ἐν τοῖς κατὰ
τὴν κατασπορὰν ὧν γ
εωργῶ δημοσίων ἐδαφῶν,
τοῦ καιροῦ ἐπείγοντος, ὥστε βλάβος μοι οὐκ ὀλίγον
ἐπακολουθεῖν. ἐπεὶ οὖν ὁ Σωτήριχος ἔχει μου παρʼ ἑαυτῶι σύμβολον λαογραφείας ἐτῶν ἕξ ,
ἀξιῶ συντάξαι καταστῆσαι
τὸν Σωτήριχον ἐπὶ σέ, ὅπως
διαστολὰς λάβηι ἀπέχεσθαί
μου, ἐπαναγκασθῆι δὲ
ἀποδοῦναί μοι ἃ ἔχει μου,
ἵνα μηδὲν τῶν δημοσίων διαπέσηι.
εὐτύχει.
ἔτους λγ Καίσαρος Φαῶφι ιγ.Translations (1)
To Asklepiades, royal scribe,
from Marsisouchos son of Marres, of those from Theadelphia in the division of Themistes, public farmer. In the present 33rd year of Caesar I have had ceded to me by Pnepheros son of Tithoes, public farmer, the 24 arouras of public land in his name near the village; and after I had taken them over and banked them and partly flooded them for the sowing of the same year, Soterichos, secretary of the village scribe of the village, on some pretext or other, sent the praktor and the guard to the fields; they dragged me off and handed me over to Soterichos' account, though I owed absolutely nothing, and I was not released until after a considerable sum. The same Soterichos also carried off my cloak and hindered me in the sowing of the public lands which I farm, though the season is pressing, so that no small damage has resulted for me. Since, therefore, Soterichos holds in his keeping my poll-tax receipts for six years, I ask you to order that Soterichos be brought before you, so that he may receive instructions to keep away from me and be compelled to return to me what he has of mine, so that nothing of the public revenues may suffer loss.
Farewell.
Year 33 of Caesar, Phaophi 13.
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- TM-Text 10545 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.col;8;209rpdupl tier-1
- HGV-Text 10545 tier-1
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