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p.enteux.13 28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.Magdola (Arsinoites)
Veuve d’un clérouque lésée par son stathmouque via HGV-meta
Petition of a widow against her house host about a dividing wall. Petition to King Ptolemy from Asia, widow of the soldier Machatas, complaining that Pooris, who shared a billeted house with her late husband in the village of Pelusion, is stopping her from finishing a dividing wall. The strategos instructs the epistates Menandros to reconcile them or refer the case; dated 28 January 222 BC, from Magdola in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation
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- chrest.wilck.101 DDbDP-text Magdola (Arsinoites)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.
- Veuve d’un clérouque lésée par son stathmouque HGV-meta Magdola (Arsinoites)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.
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Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ἀσία. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ποώριος τοῦ σταθμούχου. τοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρός μου
Μαχάτου σταθμοδοτηθέντος ἐν κώμηι Πηλουσίωι καὶ διελομένου αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν Ποῶριν καὶ ἀνοικοδομήσαντος ἐν τῶι αὑτοῦ τόπωι ἱερὸν Συρίας θεοῦ καὶ Ἀφροδίτης Βερενίκης, ὑπάρχοντος δὲ τοίχου τινὸς
ἡμιτελέστου ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ τε Ποώριος καὶ τοῦ τοῦ ἀνδρός μου, ἐμοῦ δὲ βουλομένης ἐπισυντελέσαι
τὸν τοῖχον ἵνα μὴ ὑπερβατὸν ἦι εἰς τὰ ἡμέτερα, Ποῶρις κεκώλυκεν οἰκοδομεῖν, οὐθὲν προσήκοντος
αὐτῶι τοῦ τοίχου, ἀλλὰ καταφρονῶν ὅτι ὁ ἀνήρ μου τετελεύτηκεν. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, προστάξαι
Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Μενάνδρωι τῶι ἐπιστάτηι, ἐὰν φαίνηται ὢν ὁ τοῖχος ἡμέτερος, μὴ ἐπιτρέπειν τῶι Ποώρει κωλύειν ἡμᾶς οἰκοδομεῖν, ἵνα ἐπὶ σὲ καταφυγοῦσα, βασιλεῦ, τοῦ δικαίου τύχω.
εὐτύχει.
Μενάνδρωι. μάλιστα μὲν διάλυσον αὐτούς· εἰ δὲ μή, πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀπόστειλον ὅπως ἐπισκεψώμεθα.
ἔτους κε, Λώιου κϛ, Χοίαχ ιγ.
[v]
ἔτους κε, Λώιου κϛ, Χοίαχ ιγ.
Ἀσία πρὸς Ποῶριν περὶ
καθαιρέσεως τοίχου.Translations (1)
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Asia. I am wronged by Pooris the stathmouchos (host of the billet). For when my husband Machatas was assigned a billet in the village of Pelusion and had divided it with Pooris, and had built on his own plot a shrine of the Syrian Goddess and of Aphrodite Berenike, and there was a half-finished wall between Pooris' part and my husband's, and I wished to complete the wall so that it could not be climbed over into our property, Pooris has prevented me from building, although the wall does not concern him at all, but out of contempt because my husband has died. I beg you therefore, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Menandros the epistates that, if the wall appears to be ours, he not allow Pooris to prevent us from building, so that, having taken refuge with you, O King, I may obtain justice.
Farewell.
To Menandros. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send them to us so that we may examine the matter.
Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13.
[verso]
Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13.
Asia against Pooris concerning the demolition of a wall.
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- TM-Text 3290 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;13 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3290 tier-1
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