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p.enteux.86 Magdola (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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Petition of Tetosiris about intimidation of her witnesses. A petition to King Ptolemy from a woman named Tetosiris, who is in a lawsuit with Apollodoros over a house in Berenikis Thesmophorou. She complains that Apollodoros threatened her witnesses with death and expulsion, so they withdrew, and asks that the strategos Diophanes arrange for the builders of the house to be sent to testify under oath. It was filed at Magdola in the Arsinoite nome in 221 BC. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Τετοσῖρις. κρίσις μοι ἐνε…[…]…[…]ν ἐπὶ[…] δι[…]πρὸς Ἀπολλόδωρον περὶ οἰκίας τῆς οὔσης ἐν Βερενικίδι τῆι Θεσμοφόρου· χρείαν ἔχουσα μαρτυριῶν εἰς τὴν κρίσιν, ἔλαβον παρὰ τοῦ εἰσαγωγέως[…] ἐπιστολὴν πρὸς Ἡρακλεόδωρον τὸν ἐπιστάτην, οὓς ἂν αὐτῶι προσαγάγω μάρτυρας ἐνομόσασθαί μοι τὰς μαρτυρίας· Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐπισύστασιν ποιησάμενος πλέονος ποιῶν τοὺς μάρτυράς μου ἀνεσόβησεν πάντας, λέγων ἀποτυμπανιεῖν αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐμὲ καὶ ἐγβαλεῖν ἐκ τῆς κώμης· ἔτι δὲ καὶ Βιου[…]αν τινα ἑκατοντάρουρον μέλλοντά μοι μαρτυρῆσαι ἐλοιδόρησεν πολλὰ καὶ ἔφη καὶ τοῦτον ἀποτυμπανιεῖν, διʼ ἣν αἰτίαν οὐκ ἐμαρτύρησέ μοι· παρὰ τὸ δὲ εἶναι τοὺς μέλλοντάς μοι μαρτυρεῖν Αἰγυπτίους, εὐλαβηθέντες ἀνεχώρησαν ὥστε μὴ μαρτυρῆσαι. ἀξιῶ οὖν σὲ, βασιλεῦ, δεομένη, ἵνα μὴ παρὰ ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν ὑστερήσω τοῦ δικαίου καὶ ἀπολ[…]προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Ἡρακλεοδώρωι οὓς ἂν αὐτῶι[…]μους τοὺς ᾠκοδομηκότας τὴν οἰκίαν ταύτην πλινθοφόρους καὶ τέκτονας[…] ἀποστεῖλαι ἐπὶ Διοφάνην ὅπως ἐνομος[…]ἵνα, τούτου γενομένου, ἐπὶ σὲ καταφυγοῦσα, βασιλεῦ, τὸν πάντων κοινὸν εὐεργέτην, τύχω τῆς παρὰ σοῦ φιλανθρωπίας. εὐτύχει. Ευ[…]υριοις διὰ το[…] …[…]… παις […] [v] ἔτους α, Γορπιαίου[…], Τῦβι α[…] Τετοσῖρις[…] [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Tetosiris. I have a lawsuit […] before […] against Apollodoros concerning a house located in Berenikis Thesmophorou. Needing testimonies for the lawsuit, I received from the introducer (eisagogeus) […] a letter to Herakleodoros the epistates, that whatever witnesses I bring before him should have their testimonies sworn for me. Apollodoros, having formed a conspiracy and outdoing himself, scared off all my witnesses, saying that he would cudgel them to death, and me too, and throw us out of the village. Moreover, he also heaped much abuse on a certain Biou[…], a holder of 100 arouras, who was about to testify for me, and said he would cudgel him to death too, for which reason he did not testify for me. And because those who were about to testify for me are Egyptians, they took fright and withdrew so as not to testify. I therefore ask you, O King, begging you, so that I may not for this reason be deprived of my rights and lose […], to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Herakleodoros that whatever […] to him […] the brick-carriers and carpenters who built this house […] to send them to Diophanes so that they may be sworn […], so that, when this is done, having taken refuge with you, O King, the common benefactor of all, I may obtain your kindness. Farewell. Eu[…] through […] […] child (?) […] [verso] Year 1, Gorpiaios […], Tybi 1 […] Tetosiris […] […]

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