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p.enteux.60 13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.Kaminoi (Arsinoites)
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Petition of Idomeneus about the flooding of his vetch field. A petition to King Ptolemy IV from Idomeneus, a tenant farmer on the gift-estate of Chrysermos at Kaminoi in the Arsinoite nome, complaining that two villagers flooded his 2 arouras sown with vetch. He asks that they be brought to trial before the strategos Diophanes and, if guilty, made to take over his crop and rent and give him equal land; the strategos's note orders the epistates Hephaistion to reconcile them or send them to court. machine translation
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- chrest.wilck.338 DDbDP-text Kaminoi (Arsinoites)13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.
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Transcription
[r]
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ἰδομενεύς, τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Χρυσέρμου δωρεᾶς γεωργῶν, ἐκ κώμης
Καμίνων. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Πετοβάστιος τοῦ Ταῶτος καὶ Ὥρου τοῦ Κελεήσιος, τῶν ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης. ἐμοῦ γὰρ μισθωσαμένου ἀπὸ τῆς Χρυσέρμου δωρεᾶς […]… ἀρούρας β καὶ κατασπείραντός μου
τὴν γῆν ἀράκωι, Πετοβάστις καὶ Ὧρος οἱ προγεγραμμένοι κατέκλυσάνμου τὸν σπόρον, ὥστε
ἀχρεῖον μου γενέσθαι τὸν ἄρακον, καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι μηδὲ τὰ ἀνηλώματα τὰ γενόμενα εἰς τὴν γῆν
κομίσασθαί με. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι
Ἡφαιστίωνι τῶι ἐπιστάτηι ἀποστεῖλαι Πετοβάστιν καὶ Ὧρον τοὺς ἐγκεκλημένους εἰς Κροκοδίλων πόλιν, ὅπως διακριθῶ αὐτοῖς ἐπὶ Διοφάνους, καί, ἐὰν ἐνδείξωμαι αὐτοὺς κατακεκλυκότας μου τὸν σπόρον, ἐπαναγκασθῆναι αὐτοὺς τὸν ἐμὸν σπόρον ἀναλαβεῖν καὶ τάξασθαι αὐτοὺς τὰ ἐκφόρια, ἀπὸ δὲ ἧς αὐτοὶ γεωργοῦσιν γῆς ἀντιδοθῆναί μοι τὸ ἴσον πλῆθος ἀνθʼ ἧς κατακεκλύκασιν. τούτου γὰρ γενομένου, ἐπὶ σὲ καταφυγών, βασιλεῦ, τά τε ἐκφόρια Χρυσέρμωι δυνήσομαι
ἀποδοῦναι, ἐγώ τε ἔσομαι τῆς παρὰ σοῦ φιλανθρωπίας τετευχώς. εὐτύχει.
Ἡφαιστίωνι. μάλιστα διάλυσον αὐτούς· εἰ δὲ μή, ἀπόστειλον πρὸς ἐκ τῆς ι τοῦ Χοίαχ ὅπως
διακριθῶσιν ἐπὶ τοῦ καθήκοντος κριτηρίου.
ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κζ, Ἁθὺρ κθ.
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ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κζ, Ἁθὺρ κθ.
Ἰδομενεύς, γεωργὸς τῆς Χρυσέρμου δωρεᾶς, πρὸς Πετοβάστιν
καὶ Ὧρον περὶ κατακλυσμοῦ γῆς.Translations (1)
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greeting, from Idomeneus, one of the cultivators of the gift-estate of Chrysermos, from the village of Kaminoi. I am wronged by Petobastis son of Taos and Horos son of Keleesis, of the same village. For when I had leased from the gift-estate of Chrysermos […] 2 arouras and had sown the land with vetch, Petobastis and Horos, the aforementioned, flooded my crop, so that my vetch became useless and I cannot even recover the expenses incurred on the land. I therefore beg you, O king, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Hephaistion the epistates to send Petobastis and Horos, the accused, to Krokodilopolis, so that my case against them may be decided before Diophanes, and, if I prove that they flooded my crop, that they be compelled to take over my crop and to undertake the rents, and that from the land which they themselves cultivate an equal amount be given to me in exchange for what they flooded. For if this is done, having taken refuge with you, O king, I shall be able to pay the rents to Chrysermos, and I shall have obtained your benevolence. Farewell.
To Hephaistion. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send them to us from the 10th of Choiak so that they may be judged before the competent court.
Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29.
[verso]
Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29.
Idomeneus, cultivator of the gift-estate of Chrysermos, against Petobastis and Horos concerning the flooding of land.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 3335 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;60 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3335 tier-1
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