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p.enteux.9 13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.
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Petition against an aunt refusing to vacate an inherited house. Petition to King Ptolemy IV from Apollonios son of Leptines of Krokodilopolis, complaining that his paternal aunt Thaisithis refuses to leave his inherited house in Pharbaitha, which he needs to sell to pay for his father's burial. He asks that she be evicted and made to pay back rent; the official's note orders the local epistates to reconcile the parties or send them on. machine translation
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- Jouissance d’une maison HGV-meta Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites, Ägypte13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.
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Transcription
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βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ἀπολλώνιος Λεπτίνου, τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν Κροκοδίλων πόλει
τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Θαισίθιος τῆς ἀδελφῆς τοῦ πατρός μου. ὑπαρχούσης γάρ μοι
πατρικῆς οἰκίας ἐν Φαρβαίθοις τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος καὶ οἰκούσης Θαισίθιος ἐν τῆι προγεγραμμένηι οἰκίαι,
τοῦ δὲ πατρός μου τελευτήσαντος ἐν τῶι κγ ἔτει, καὶ ἐμοῦ χρείαν σχόντος τῆς οἰκίας ὅπως ἀποδόμενος
θάψω τὸν πατέρα μου, καὶ παραγγείλαντός μου τῆι Θαισίθει ἐκχωρεῖν ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας, οὐ προσέσχεν,
καταφρονοῦσα ἐπὶ τῶι ὀρφανόν με εἶναι. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, προστάξαι Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι
γράψαι Μνασέαι τῶι ἐν Φαρβαίθοις ἐπιστάτηι ἀποστεῖλαι ἐπʼ αὐτὸν τὴν Θαισῖθιν καὶ, ἐὰν ἦι ἃ γράφω ἀληθῆ
[…]οἰκίας αὐτὴν ἐπαναγκάσαι ἐκχωρεῖν, ἐπειδὴ πεφερνισμένη ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός μου οὐχ ὑπομε…[…] κα[…]
[…]πραχθῆναί μοι αὐτὴν τὸ ἐνοίκιον ἀπὸ τοῦ κγ ἔτους, ἀφʼ οὗ χρόνου ὁ πατήρ μου ἀπεγένετο,
[…]ἕκαστον δραχμὰς ε, ὃ γίνεται[…]ου…[…]τούτου γὰρ γενομένου διὰ σέ, βασιλεῦ,
τὸν πάντων κοινὸν σωτῆρα, τοῦ δικαίου τεύξομαι. εὐτύχει.
Μνασέαι. μάλιστα διάλυσον αὐτούς· εἰ δὲ μή, ἀπόστειλον […]
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ἔτους δ, Δαισίου κζ, Ἁθὺρ κθ.
Ἀπολλώνιος Λεπτίνου πρὸς
Θαισῖθιν περὶ οἰκίας καὶ ἐνοικίου.Translations (1)
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Apollonios son of Leptines, one of those residing in Krokodilopolis of the Arsinoite nome. I am wronged by Thaisithis, my father's sister. For I own a house inherited from my father in Pharbaitha of the division of Herakleides, and Thaisithis lives in the aforementioned house; and when my father died in year 23, and I needed the house so that by selling it I might bury my father, and I instructed Thaisithis to vacate the house, she paid no attention, scorning me because I am an orphan. I beg you therefore, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Mnaseas, the epistates in Pharbaitha, to send Thaisithis to him and, if what I write is true, […] to compel her to vacate the house, since, having been given a dowry by my father, she does not […] and […] that she be made to pay me the rent from year 23, from the time my father died, […] each 5 drachmas, which makes […]. For if this is done through you, O King, the common saviour of all, I shall obtain justice. Farewell.
To Mnaseas. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send […]
[verso]
Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29.
Apollonios son of Leptines against Thaisithis concerning a house and rent.
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Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites)
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- TM-Text 3286 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.enteux;;9 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3286 tier-1
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