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p.lond.7.2009 Philadelphia (Arsinoites)
Petition about a drunken night-time break-in demanding wine. Fragmentary end of a petition from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, in which the writer complains that a man came at night with drunken companions, demanded wine, and forced the door with knives and staves until the writer escaped onto the roof shouting. The petitioner asks the official to have the offender sent for so that justice may be done. machine translation
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TM 1571.
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- (untitled record) HGV-meta Philadelphia (Arsinoites)-246
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
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καὶ ἐν τῶι β ἔτει […]
τῆι ζ εἰς τὴν η ἦλθεν μετά
μεθυόντων[…]
τινων καὶ ἔκρουσεν τὴν
θύραν κελεύων ἄνοιξονἵνα
πίωμεν. ἐμοῦ δὲ προσφώνήσαντος αὐτῶι οὐκ ἔχω οἶνον
οὐδὲ ἀνοίγω νύκτα, ἔλεγέν
μοι ἀνοῖξαι, καὶ ἄλλου προπεμπομένου προσεῖχον ἀνοῖξαι,
ἐξεμόχλευεν τὴν θύραν
ταῖς μαχαίραις καὶ ῥάβδοις.
ἀναπηδήσαντος δέ μου
ἄνω ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος
βοῶντος οὕτως ἀπηλλάγη.
ἀξιῶ οὖν σε γράψαι ὧι καθήκει ἀποστεῖλαι πρός σε
ἵνα ἐὰν ἃ γράφω ἀληθῆ, τύχω
τοῦ δικαίου.
εὐτύχει.Translations (1)
[…]
[…]
and in year 2 […]
on the night of the 7th to the 8th [he came with] some drunken men […] and knocked on [the] door, ordering 'Open, so that we may drink.' When I said to him, 'I have no wine, and I do not open at night,' he told me to open, and when another was urging me on, I was about to open; he prised open the door with knives and staves. But when I leapt up onto the roof shouting, he thereupon went away.
I ask you therefore to write to the proper official to send him to you, so that, if what I write is true, I may obtain justice.
Farewell.
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Philadelphia (Arsinoites)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 1571 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lond;7;2009 tier-1
- HGV-Text 1571 tier-1
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