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p.enteux.34 11. Mai 218 v.Chr.
Livraison incomplète d’une commande de vin via HGV-meta
Petition of wine retailers about a short delivery of wine. Three wine retailers from Kerkesoucha petition King Ptolemy IV, complaining that the wine seller Petenenteris delivered 14 jars fewer than the 126 they had bought and partly paid for. They ask the strategos Diophanes to investigate and make him pay the value of the missing jars. The petition dates to May 218 BC in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation
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TM 3309.
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- Livraison incomplète d’une commande de vin HGV-meta Kerkesucha Orus (Arsinoites, Ägypt11. Mai 218 v.Chr.
- Incomplete delivery of an order for wine APIS-papyrus Magdola (Arsinoite Nome)May 11, 218 BC
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Σώπατρος Μέλανος καὶ Διονύσιος Ἀλκαινέτου καὶ Πτολεμαῖος
Περίτου, κάπηλοι ἐκ Κερκεσούχων. ἀδικούμεθα ὑπὸ Πετενεντήριος. τοῦ γὰρ δ ἔτους, Μεχείρ,
ἀποδόμενος ἡμῖν οἴνου κεράμια ρκϛ, ὧν ἑξάχοα μὲν οβ, πεντάχοα δὲ νδ,
ἕκαστον μετρητὴν τὸν ἑξάχοον δραχμῶν ιδ, καὶ εἰς τοῦτο λαβὼν παρʼ ἡμῶν ἀρραβῶνα δραχμὰς π, ἐφʼ ὧι καὶ
τοῦ ἐκφερομένου τὴν τιμὴν διορθούμενοι ἐκταμιευσόμεθα, ἡμῶν δὲ ἐκτεταμιευμένων
ἑξάχοα μὲν λ, πεντάχοα δὲ ϛ, καὶ τούτων δεδωκότων ἡμῶν τὴν τιμὴν τῶι
παρὰ Νίκωνος, ὧι συ…ετα…η ὁ Πετενεντῆρις, δραχμὰς υϙ καὶ ἔτι πλεῖον δραχμὰς ρι ἵνα καὶ τοῦτο ἡμῖν ὑπάρχηι πλεῖον τοῦ δεδομένου ἀρραβῶνος, ὥστε εἶναι τὸν ἀρραβῶνα δραχμὰς ρϙ, βουλομένων δὲ ἡμῶν
καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἐκταμιεύεσθαι, εὑρίσκομεν ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθους ἐλαττονοῦντα κεράμια ἑξάχοα ϛ
πεντάχοα η. δεόμεθα οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι ἀνακαλεσάμενον τὸν
Πετενεντῆριν ἐπισκέψασθαι περὶ τούτων καὶ ἐὰν ἦι ἀληθῆ ὡς διὰ τῆς ἐντεύξεως ἐμφανίζομεν,
ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτὸν ἀποδοῦναι ἡμῖν τὸ διάφορον τῶν ἐλαττονούντων ιδ κεραμίων, ὅσον
ἂν κατομοσώμεθα, ἵνα ἐπὶ σὲ καταφυγόντες, βασιλεῦ, τύχωμεν τοῦ δικαίου.
εὐτύχει.
……[…] ἔτους δ, Δίου γ, Φαμενὼθ κζ.
[v]
ἔτους δ, Δίου γ, Φαμενὼθ κζ.
Σώπατρος καὶ οἱ μετʼ αὐτοῦ
κάπηλοι πρὸς Πετενεντῆριν
περὶ διαφόρου οἴνου.Translations (1)
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Sopatros son of Melas and Dionysios son of Alkainetos and Ptolemaios son of Peritas, retailers from Kerkesoucha. We are wronged by Petenenteris. For in year 4, in Mecheir, he sold us 126 jars of wine, of which 72 were six-chous jars and 54 five-chous jars, each metretes, that is the six-chous jar, at 14 drachmas, and for this he received from us an earnest-money deposit of 80 drachmas, on condition that we would draw off (the wine) paying the price of what was removed. When we had drawn off 30 six-chous jars and 6 five-chous jars, and had paid the price of these, 490 drachmas, to the agent of Nikon, with whom Petenenteris […] (?), and 110 drachmas more, so that this too might be credited to us in addition to the deposit given, making the deposit 190 drachmas, and when we wished to draw off the rest as well, we find the total short by 6 six-chous jars and 8 five-chous jars. We therefore beg you, O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to summon Petenenteris and investigate these matters, and if what we set out in this petition is true, to compel him to pay us the value of the 14 missing jars, as much as we declare on oath, so that, having taken refuge with you, O King, we may obtain justice.
Farewell.
[…] Year 4, Dios 3, Phamenoth 27.
[verso]
Year 4, Dios 3, Phamenoth 27.
Sopatros and his fellow retailers against Petenenteris concerning the value of wine.
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Kerkesucha Orus (Arsinoites)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 3309 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;34 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3309 tier-1
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