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Petition of Philiskos against a weaver who failed to finish two cloaks. A petition to King Ptolemy IV from Philiskos, a Cyrenaean military settler at Arsinoe on the Dyke in the Fayum, complaining that a village woman named Hedeia took payment and materials from his wife to weave two cloaks but finished only one and refused to weave the other. He asks that the strategos Poseidion have her brought before him and compelled to fulfil the job; an official note instructs the epistates Onesandros to see that justice is done. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Φιλίσκος, Κυρηναῖος, ἐκατοντάρουρος, τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν Ἀρσινόηι τῆι ἐπὶ χώματος, τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ἡδείας […]τῶν κατοικουσῶν τὴν αὐτὴν κώμην. λαβοῦσα γὰρ παρὰ τῆς γυναικός μου[…]υφᾶναι ἱμάτια δύο ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἱστοῦ, ὧν καὶ τὰ ὕφαντρα […]παραχρῆμα καὶ τὰ ἔργα τῶν δύο ἱματίων, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἓν αὐτῆς ἐξυφανάσης οὐχ οἵα ἐστὶν τὸ ἄλλο ἱμάτιον προσεξυφᾶναι κακοτεχνοῦσα. δέομαι οὖν σοῦ, βασιλεῦ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, προστάξαι Ποσειδίωνι τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Ὀνησάνδρωι τῶι ἐπιστάτηι ἀποστεῖλαι τὴν Ἡδεῖαν ἐπὶ Ποσειδίωνα […]…ω διὰ τῆς ἐντεύξεως ὄντα ἀληθῆ, ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτὴν […]……. τούτου γὰρ γενομένου οὐκ ἀδικηθήσομαι, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ σὲ καταφυγών, τὸνκοινὸν πάντων εὐεργέτην, τεύξομαι τοῦ δικαίου. εὐτύχει. Ὀνησάνδρωι. ἐπισκεψάμενος φρόντισον ὅπως τύχηι τοῦ δικαίου. ἔτους δ …[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Philiskos, Cyrenaean, holder of 100 arouras, one of those settled at Arsinoe on the Dyke, in the division of Themistos. I am wronged by Hedeia […] one of the women living in the same village. For having received from my wife […] to weave two cloaks on the same loom, for which […] at once both the weaving fee and the materials for the two cloaks, and having woven one of them, she is not willing to finish weaving the other cloak, acting fraudulently. I therefore beg you, O King, if it seems good to you, to order Poseidion the strategos to write to Onesandros the epistates to send Hedeia to Poseidion […] what is in the petition being true, to compel her […]. For if this is done I shall not be wronged, but having taken refuge with you, the common benefactor of all, I shall obtain justice. Farewell. To Onesandros. Having investigated, see to it that he obtains justice. Year 4, […]

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