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p.enteux.29 13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.Magdola (Arsinoites)

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Petition to the king about belongings withheld after a death. A petition to King Ptolemy IV from a Persian of the epigone, complaining that a man and a woman named Theudote living at Pelusion kept his belongings (a sickle, an axe, a container of wool-flock, a chest and 20 drachmas in bronze) after a woman's death while he was away at Bakchias. He asks that the strategos Diophanes have the epistates Menandros compel them to do him justice; the docket orders reconciliation or referral to court. It comes from Magdola in the Arsinoite nome, 218 BC. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν[…]ένους, Πέρσης τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ […]καὶ τῆς[…]αὐτοῦ Θευδότης, τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν Πηλουσίωι[…] Μεσορή. οἰκησάντων γὰρ ἡμῶν ἀμφοτέρων […] μεθʼ αὑτῶν, τοῦ δὲ προγεγραμμένου ἔτους […]τὸν βίον καταλυσάσης, ὑπαρχόντων δέ μοι σκευῶν[…]αι δρέπανον θεριστικὸν οὗ τιμὴ δραχμαὶ β, ἀξίνη οὗ τιμὴ δραχμαὶ β ὀβολοὶ γ […]ουν μεστὸν γναφάλλων οὗ τιμὴ δραχμαὶ ε, κίστη […]εια καὶ χαλκοῦ νομίσματος δραχ κ, ἃς παρεδειξ[…]ύτοις ᾠχόμην εἰς Βακχιάδα ὅπως ἀπαγγέλλω[…]κατάλυσιν τοῦ βίου· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτʼ ἀνακάμψαντός μου[…] καταφρονήσας μου ὅτι ξένος εἰμὶ τὸ πο[…]ἀποστερῆσαι. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, μὴ ὑπεριδεῖν με ἀδικούμενον, ἀλλὰ προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Μενάνδρωι τῶι ἐπιστάτηι ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτοὺς τὰ δίκαιά μοι ποιῆσαι. τούτου γὰρ γενομένου, διὰ σέ, βασιλεῦ, τὸν πάντων κοινὸν εὐεργέτην, τεύξομαι τοῦ δικαίου. εὐτύχει. Μενάνδρωι. μάλιστα διάλυσον αὐτούς· εἰ δὲ μή, ἀπόστειλον πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῆς ι τοῦ Χοίαχ ὅπως διακριθῶσιν ἐπὶ τοῦ καθήκοντος κριτηρίου. ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κϛ, Ἁθὺρ κη.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To King Ptolemy, greeting, […]enes(?), Persian of the epigone. I am wronged by […] and […] his […] Theudote, who live in Pelusion […] Mesore. For when we both lived […] with them, and in the aforementioned year […] having ended her life, and there being belongings of mine […] a reaping sickle worth 2 drachmas, an axe worth 2 drachmas 3 obols, […] full of wool-flock worth 5 drachmas, a chest […] and 20 drachmas in bronze coin, which I showed […] I went away to Bakchias in order to report […] the ending of her life; and after this, when I returned, […] despising me because I am a stranger […] to deprive me. I beg you therefore, O King, not to overlook me being wronged, but to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Menandros the epistates to compel them to do what is just for me. For if this is done, I shall obtain justice through you, O King, the common benefactor of all. Farewell. [Docket:] To Menandros. Above all reconcile them; if not, send them to us from the 10th of Choiak, so that they may be judged before the appropriate court. Year 4, Daisios 26, Hathyr 28.

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Found at Magdola (Arsinoites)

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