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p.lond.5.1827 frühes IVHermopolites
Petition to a strategus via HGV-meta
Petition of an elderly man concerning cultivation of royal land. Fragment of a petition from the Hermopolite nome, early 4th century AD, apparently addressed to a strategus and referring to the dux of the Thebaid. An elderly petitioner pleads his infirmity of old age and seems to ask that the aged be left unharassed and that village men take on cultivation of royal land and public burdens. machine translation
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TM 33192.
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- Petition to a strategus HGV-meta Hermopolitesfrühes IV
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Transcription
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[…]τῷ διασημοτάτῳ ἡγουμένῳ Θηβαΐδος
νῦν δὲ πρὸς τῇ προσούσῃ μοι τοῦ γήρως ἀδυναμίᾳ[…]
[…]ἀνενόχλητον ὑπαρχθῆναι τοῖς μὲν ἅπαξ γεγηρακόσι
[…]τοῖς τῆς κώμης προσιέναι ἄρρεσι γεωργίας ὑπολόγου βασιλικῆς[…]
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[…]ἐπικειμένων αὐτοῖς τοῖς τῆς κώμης δημοσίοις […]
[…]τούτους ἀντιποιεῖσθαι τῆς ἰδίας γῆς τῶν κα…[…]
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[…] to the most distinguished commander (dux) of the Thebaid
but now, in addition to the infirmity of old age which besets me […]
[…] that it be granted, without harassment, to those who have once grown old […]
[…] to the male (inhabitants) of the village to undertake the cultivation of exempted (?) royal land […]
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[…] the public (burdens) of the village imposed upon them […]
[…] that these lay claim to their own land of the […]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33192 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lond;5;1827 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33192 tier-1
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