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Petition of royal sifters about an assault on a threshing floor. Petition from the royal grain sifters of Oxyrhyncha in the Arsinoite nome to the strategos Polyidos. They complain that a soldier, Atarrias son of Ptolemaios, burst onto the cavalry threshing floor while they were winnowing a cavalry settler's crop, beat them and smashed their tools. Probably mid-2nd century BC. machine translation

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Transcription

[r] Πολυίδωι ἀρχισωματοφύλακι καὶ στρατηγῶι παρὰ τῶν ἐξ Ὀξυρύγχων τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος βασιλικῶν κοσκινευτῶν. παρεχομένων ἡμῶν τὰς βασιλικὰς χρείας ἐκτενῶς καὶ προθύμως καὶ ἀνεγκλήτως τοῦ τε σησάμου καὶ τῶν σιτικῶν γενημάτων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων, τῆι δὲ ιγ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς ἐγλικμώντων ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς ἱππικῆς ἅλω μετὰ τῆς τοῦ λογευτοῦ καὶ τῶν εἰθισμένων γνώμης τὰ Δημητρίου τῶν κατοίκων ἱππέων γενήματα ἐπελθὼν Ἀταρρίας Πτολεμαίου τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐπὶ τὴν ἅλω οὐδεννὶ κόσμωι χρησάμενος πληγὰς καὶ πλείους ἡμῖν ἐνέβαλεν, τὰ δὲ γεωργικὰ ἐργαλεῖα πάντα συντρίψας ἠχρέωσεν, ἃ καὶ τυγχάνομεν παραδεδωκότες τῶι τῆς κώμης ἐπιστάτει καὶ κατασφραγισάμενοι […]… […]…[…]…[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] … Ἀπολλωνίωι

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To Polyidos, one of the chief bodyguards and strategos, from the royal sifters from Oxyrhyncha in the division of Polemon. While we have been performing the royal services diligently, zealously and blamelessly, for the sesame, the grain crops and the other produce, on the 13th of the present month, as we were winnowing on the cavalry threshing floor, with the consent of the collector and the customary officials, the crops of Demetrios, one of the cavalry settlers, Atarrias son of Ptolemaios, one of the soldiers, came onto the threshing floor and, behaving in no orderly manner, dealt us many blows, and smashing all the farming tools he made them useless; these we have in fact handed over to the epistates of the village and, having sealed them […] […] [verso] […] to Apollonios

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