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p.enteux.54 11. Mai 218 v.Chr.Bakchias (Arsinoites, Ägypten)
Validité d’un contrat non scellé via HGV-meta
Petition of a priest over an unsealed lease of soldiers' allotments. Petition to King Ptolemy IV from Petous, a priest of Soknokonis living at Bakchias, against the soldiers Lachares and his son Alexandros. They had leased him their allotments and advanced seed wheat, but the lease contract was left unsealed, and they refused to seal it and expelled him from the land; he asks that the case be judged by the strategos Diophanes and that they be stopped from harvesting meanwhile. machine translation
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- chrest.mitt.130 DDbDP-text Bakchias (Arsinoites, Ägypten)11. Mai 218 v.Chr.
- Validité d’un contrat non scellé HGV-meta Bakchias (Arsinoites, Ägypten)11. Mai 218 v.Chr.
- Validity of an unsealed contract APIS-papyrus Magdola (Arsinoite Nome)May 11, 218 BC
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Transcription
[r]
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Πετῶυς[…]…ῆτος ἱερεὺς Σοκνοκονίος, τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν Βακχιάδι.
ἀδικούμαι ὑπὸ Λαχάρους καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀσίας στρατιωτῶν.
συγγραψάμενοι γάρ μοι συγγραφὴν μισθώσεως κατὰ τῶν κλήρων αὐτῶν ἐν τῶι Χοίαχ μηνὶ καὶ τῶν μαρτύρων ἐπιγραφέντων, συνέβη ὑπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκκλεισθέντας ἀσφράγιστον τεθῆναι αὐτὴν παρὰ Ζωπύρωι τῶι
μονογράφωι· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα, ταξάμενοί μοι ἐπὶ Διονυσίου δώσειν εἰς σπέρμα πυρῶν ἀρτάβας ια,
ἐφʼ ὧι ἀποδώσω αὐτοῖς ἡμιόλιον ἅμα τοῖς ἐκφορίοις, ἐμοῦ δὲ λαβόντος τὰς ια ἀρτάβας καὶ κατασπείραντος, παρήγαγόν με οὐ βουλόμενοι σφραγίσασθαι τὴν συγγραφήν· ἐμοῦ δὲ ἐντυχόντος
κατʼ αὐτῶν Στρατίωι τῶι ἐπιστάτηι, οὐδένα λόγον ἐποιήσαντο, ἀλλὰ ἐγβεβλήκασίν με
ἐκ τῶν κλήρων. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Στρατίωι τῶι ἐπιστάτηι ἀποστεῖλαι αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ Διοφάνην διακριθησομένους μοι καί, ἐὰν ἦι
ἀληθῆ, μὴ ἐπιτρέπειν αὐτοῖς ἐγβάλλειν με ἐκ τῶν κλήρων, ἕως δὲ τοῦ διέξοδον λαβεῖν
τὴν κρίσιν μὴ θερίζειν αὐτούς. τούτου γὰρ γενομένου, ἔσομαι, βασιλεῦ, τῆς παρὰ σοῦ βοηθείας
τετευχώς. εὐτύχει.
Στρατίωι. μάλιστα διάλυσον αὐτούς· εἰ δὲ μή, ἀπόστειλον ἡμ ὅπως ἐπὶ τοῦ καθήκοντος κριτηρίου διακριθῶσιν.
ἔτους δ, Δίου γ, Φαμενὼθ κζ.
[v]
ἔτους δ, Δίου γ, Φαμενὼθ κζ.
Πετῶυς …ῆτος πρὸς
Λαχάρην καὶ Ἀλέξανδρον
περὶ κλήρων.Translations (1)
[recto]
[To King Ptolemy, greetings, from Petous son of] […]es, priest of Soknokonis, one of those living in Bakchias.
I am wronged by Lachares and Alexandros his son, soldiers from Asia.
For, having drawn up with me a contract of lease for their kleroi in the month of Choiak, and the witnesses having signed, it happened that, being shut out by the hour, it was deposited unsealed with Zopyros the contract-writer. After this, having agreed with me before Dionysios to give me 11 artabas of wheat for seed, on condition that I repay them half as much again together with the rents, and I having received the 11 artabas and sown them, they led me on, not wishing to seal the contract. And when I petitioned Stratios the epistates against them, they paid no attention, but have expelled me from the kleroi. I beg you therefore, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Stratios the epistates to send them to Diophanes to have the case judged with me, and, if it is true, not to allow them to expel me from the kleroi, and until the judgement is concluded not to let them harvest. For if this is done, I shall, O King, have obtained your help. Farewell.
To Stratios. Preferably reconcile them; otherwise send them to us so that they may be judged before the competent court.
Year 4, Dios 3, Phamenoth 27.
[verso]
Year 4, Dios 3, Phamenoth 27.
Petous son of […]es against Lachares and Alexandros concerning kleroi.
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- TM-Text 3329 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;54 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3329 tier-1
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