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p.enteux.22 13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.Magdola (Arsinoites)
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Petition of the widow Nikaia for appointment of a guardian. A petition to King Ptolemy from Nikaia, an elderly widow, whose husband Pausanias and then her appointed guardian (his son) had died. She asks that the strategos Diophanes appoint the Thracian cavalry settler Demetrios as her legal guardian and record it, with the local epistates sent to describe her because she is too ill to travel to Krokodilopolis. It bears an official instruction to the epistates Dioskourides and is dated to 218 BC, from Magdola in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation
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TM 3297.
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- Désignation d’un tuteur pour une veuve HGV-meta Magdola (Arsinoites)13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Νίκαια Νικίου, Περσίνη. ὁ ἀνήρ μου Παυσανίας ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν
τῶι κγ ἔτει, καταλιπὼν διαθήκην τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους, μηνὸς Πανήμου […], διʼ ἧς[…]ναιον τὸν
ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν ἐπίτροπόν μου καταλείπει. συμβέβηκεν οὖν καὶ τούτον τελευτῆσαι, ἔτους δ, μηνὸς
Δαισίου Αἰγυπτίων δὲ Ἁθὺρ, συγγενῆ δέ με μηθένα ἔχειν ὃς ἐπιγραφήσεταί μου κύριος. ἵναοὖν μὴ παρὰ
ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν τὰ καταλελειμμένα μοι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς καταφθαρῆι, μὴ ἐχούσης μου κύριον
μεθʼ οὗ τὰς περὶ τούτων οἰκονομίας θήσομαι, δέομαί σου, βασιλεῦ, προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι δοθῆναί μοι κύριον Δημήτριον Θρᾶικα, τῶν Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Ἐτεωνέως τῆς[…] ἱππαρχίας ἑκατοντάρουρον, ὧι καὶ τὴν
ἀδελφὴν συνῴκισεν ὁ Παυσανίας, καὶ περὶ τούτων ἔγγραπτα ποιήσασθαι τὸν στρατηγόν, ἵνα μοι
ὑπάρχηι ἐν χρηματισμῶι· καὶ ἐπειδή, πρεσβυτέρα τε οὖσα καὶ ἀσθενὴς γενομένη, οὐ δύναμαι
παραγενέσθαι εἰς Κροκοδίλων πόλιν, ἀπέσταλκα δὲ ἐπιδώσοντα τὴν ἔντευξιν Δημήτριον τὸν
προγεγραμμένον, γράψαι Διοφάνην Διοσκουρίδει τῶι ἐπιστάτηι εἰκονογραφήσαντά με καὶ τὸν
κύριον ὃν αἰτοῦμαι, ἀναγράψαι Διοφάνει. τούτων γὰρ γενομένων, ἔσομαι τετευχυῖα, βασιλεῦ,
τῆς παρὰ σοῦ φιλανθρωπίας. εὐτύχει.
Διοσκουρίδει. παραλαβών τινας τῶν ἐκ τῆς κώμης πρεσβυτέρων εἴσελθε πρὸς τὴν Νίκαιαν καὶ ἐὰν
[…]…ειων τὰς εἰκόνας διασάφησον ἡμῖν.
ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κζ, Ἁθὺρ κθ.
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ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κζ,Ἁθὺρ κθ
Νίκαια Νικίου Περσίνη
περὶ ὧν ἀξιοῖTranslations (1)
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Nikaia daughter of Nikias, Persian. My husband Pausanias died in year 23, leaving a will of the same year, in the month Panemos […], by which he leaves […]naios, his own son, as my guardian. It has now happened that he too has died, in year 4, in the month Daisios, Egyptian Hathyr, and I have no relative who will be registered as my guardian. So that, for this reason, the property left to me by my husband may not be ruined, since I have no guardian with whom I can make arrangements concerning it, I beg you, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos that there be given to me as guardian Demetrios, Thracian, one of the 100-aroura men of Ptolemy son of Eteoneus, of the […] hipparchy, to whom Pausanias also gave his sister in marriage, and that the strategos make a written record of this, so that I may have it as an official document. And since, being elderly and having become ill, I cannot come to Krokodilopolis, and have sent the aforementioned Demetrios to deliver the petition, I ask that Diophanes write to Dioskourides the epistates to make a descriptive record of me and of the guardian I request, and to report in writing to Diophanes. For when this is done, I shall have obtained, O King, your benevolence. Farewell.
To Dioskourides. Take some of the elders of the village, go to Nikaia ⟦person⟧ and if […] make clear to us the descriptions.
Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29.
[verso]
Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29.
Nikaia daughter of Nikias, Persian, concerning what she requests.
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Magdola (Arsinoites)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 3297 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;22 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3297 tier-1
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