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p.enteux.55 28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.Magdola (Arsinoites)
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Petition of a cleruch against men who cultivated his allotment without a lease. Petition to King Ptolemy III from Polemaios, a Macedonian cavalry officer and cleruch, against Polemon and Aristomachos, who sowed and harvested his 82 1/2-aroura allotment near Hiera Nesos while he was away in Alexandria and refuse to pay rent. He asks the strategos Diophanes to have the village epistates send them for judgement and to force them to pay the rent in wheat. machine translation
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- Jouissance sans bail d’une tenure HGV-meta Magdola (Arsinoites)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.
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Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
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βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Πολεμαῖος, Μακεδών, τῶν Πυθαγγέλου καὶ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ
υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπιλάρχης, κληροῦχος. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Πολέμωνος, Μακεδόνος, τριακονταρούρου, καὶ Ἀριστομάχου. ἔχοντος γάρ μου κλῆρον παρὰ σοῦ, βασιλεῦ, περὶ κώμην Ἱερὰν νῆσον, τῆς Ἡρακλείδου
μερίδος, ἀρουρῶν πβ 𐅵, ἐν δὲ τῶι κγ ἔτει ὄντος μου ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείαι πρὸς κρίσει καὶ οὐθενὸς ὄντος
παρʼ ἐμοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν τόπων, Πολέμων ὁ προγεγραμμένος, μισθωσάμενος ἐκ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ τὸ
ἡμικλήριον, οὐθενὸς ὄντος μοι πρὸς αὐτὸν συναλλάγματος, ὅλον τὸν κλῆρον κατέσπειρεν
ἐν τῶι κγ ἔτει, οὗ οἱ καρποὶ εἰς τὸ κδ ἔτος· τοῦ δὲ κδ ἔτους, οὔτε ἐκ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ οἱ προειρημένοι μεμισθωμένοι τὸ ἡμικλήριον, οὔτε πρὸς ἐμὲ ὄντος αὐτοῖς οὐθενὸς συναλλάγματος, κατέσπειραν
σησάμωι καὶ σίτωι καὶ ἀπενηνεγμένοι εἰσὶν παρὰ πάντα τὰ δίκαια, συμποιοῦντος αὐτοῖς καὶ
Φίλωνος τοῦ γενηματοφύλακος. παραγενόμενος δὲ ἐγὼ ἐξ Ἀλεξανδρείας ἀπῄτουν αὐτῶν
ἑκάτερον τὰ ἐκφόρια καθότι καὶ ἐν τοῖς πρότερον χρόνοις ἐμίσθουν ἐκφόριον ἑκάστης ἀρούρας πυρῶν ἀρτάβας δ 𐅵
ὃ γίνεται πυρῶν ἀρτάβαι τῶν δύο ἐτῶν, τοῦ μὲν ἑνὸς ἔτους ἐκφόριον τοῦ ἡμικληρίου πυρῶν ἀρτάβαι ρπε𐅵 η,
τοῦ δὲ κδ ἔτους, οὗ οἱ καρποὶ εἰς τὸ κε ἔτος, ἐκφόριον ὅλου τοῦ κλήρου πυρῶν ἀρτάβαι τοα δ· οὐκ ἀποδιδόασιν, ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ ὁμολογοῦντες ἀποδώσειν παρέλκουσί με. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Μενέλλαι τῶι ἐπιστάτηι ἀποστεῖλαι αὐτοὺς διακριθησομένους· καί, ἐὰν ἦι ἃ γράφω ἀληθῆ, πραχθῆι μοι ἑκάτερος αὐτῶν τοῦ προειρημένου πλήθους
τὸ ἐπιβάλλον ἐκφόριον ἑκατέρωι, τιμὴν ἑκάστης ἀρούρας ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν δ. περὶ δὲ τοῦ βεβιασμένους
αὐτοὺς κατεσπαρκέναι, ἐξ ὑστέρου λήψομαι τὸ δίκαιον παρʼ αὐτῶν. τούτων γὰρ γενομένων,
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ἔτους κε, Λώιου κϛ, Χοίαχ ιγ.
Πτολεμαῖος πρὸς
Πολέμωνα καὶ Ἀριστόμαχον περὶ …[…]ς
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[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Polemaios, Macedonian, epilarch of the men of Pythangelos and of Ptolemaios his son, cleruch. I am wronged by Polemon, Macedonian, holder of 30 arouras, and by Aristomachos. For I hold from you, O King, a cleruchic allotment near the village of Hiera Nesos, in the division of Herakleides, of 82 1/2 arouras. In year 23, while I was in Alexandria for a lawsuit and none of my people was on the spot, the aforementioned Polemon, having leased the half-allotment from the crown, though there was no contract between me and him, sowed the whole allotment in year 23, the crops of which belong to year 24. And in year 24, the aforementioned men, though they had not leased the half-allotment from the crown and had no contract with me, sowed it with sesame and wheat and have carried off the crops against all justice, with the complicity of Philon the crop-guard. When I came back from Alexandria I demanded from each of them the rents, just as in former times I used to lease it at a rent of 4 1/2 artabas of wheat for each aroura, which makes in wheat for the two years: for the one year, the rent of the half-allotment, 185 1/2 1/8 artabas of wheat; for year 24, the crops of which belong to year 25, the rent of the whole allotment, 371 1/4 artabas of wheat. They do not pay, but always agreeing to pay they put me off. I therefore ask you, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Menelaos the epistates to send them for judgement; and, if what I write is true, that each of them be made to pay me his share of the rent from the aforementioned amount, at a price of 4 silver drachmas for each aroura. As for their having sown it by force, I shall obtain justice from them later. For if this is done, […]
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[verso]
Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13.
Ptolemaios against Polemon and Aristomachos concerning […]
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- TM-Text 3330 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;55 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3330 tier-1
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