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p.lund.4.1 8. Nov. 198Bakchias (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

Eingabe an den praefectus Aegypti Q. Aemilius Saturninus via HGV-meta

Petition of priests of Souchos at Bakchias against forced canal work. Three priests of the crocodile god Souchos at Bakchias petition the prefect of Egypt, Q. Aemilius Saturninus, complaining that, although they pay their customary eight-drachma tax, someone forced them into canal work and exacted 120 drachmas from them. They ask that the strategos be ordered to make the offenders repay the money; the prefect's reply refers them to the epistrategos. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Κυΐντωι Αἰμιλίωι Σατορνείνωι ἐπάρχωι Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Ἀμμωνίου Ὥρου καὶ Ὀρσενούφεως Πα…… καὶ Πετεύριος Πετεύριος ἀπὸ κώμης Βακχιάδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος· τὸ ἔθος ἐστὶ τῶν ἱερέων Σούχου θεοῦ μεγάλου ὀκτάδραχμον ὑπὲρ ἐπικεφαλίων τελεῖν. διαγράφομεν τοῖς πράκτορσι τῆς κώμης, παρʼ ὧν καὶ σύμβολα τυγχάνομεν. μηδὲν ἄλλο …ρεια……… τὴν πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς θρησκείαν. τῶν δὲ φιλούντων, ἡγεμὼν μέγιστε, …το……η…ται…μ… παλαιὸν ἐν κωμ………ξ… ἐθέλομεν … …τη[…]ι διορύγων κ… … ιν… αὐτὸς εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν ………‡1… κελεύων αὐτοὺς εἰς τὰς διώρυγας ἐργάζεσθαι … ἐὰν δὲ μὴ, … α… δραχμὰς ρκ …α…αλλ … …ωντα βοηθε θ……ε…… προστάξαι διʼ ἱερᾶς ὑπογραφῆς σου τῷ τοῦ νομοῦ στρατηγῶι, ὅπως ἐπαναγκάσῃ τοὺς προγεγραμμένους, ἃς οὐ δεόντως ἠργολάβησαν ἡμᾶς δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἀποκαταστῆσαι ἕως ἐκδικηθῆναι, ἵνα διὰ τὴν σὴν τύχην δυνηθῶμεν προσκαρτερεῖν τῶι ἔργωι, μὴ ἐργολαβούμενοι ὑπὸ μηδενὸς διαγράφοντες τῷ ταμιείῳ τὴν συνήθη ὀκτάδραχμον ὑπὲρ ἐπικεφαλίων, ἵνʼ ὦμεν εὐεργετημένοι. διευτύχει. Ἀμμῶνις καὶ Ὀρσενοῦφις καὶ Πετεῦρις ἐπιδέδωκαν· ἦλθαν αὐτοὶ … ἔτους ζ Ἁθὺρ ιβ. μηδενὸς ἐπεχομένου τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρατήγῳ ἔντυχε. ἀπόδος.

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To Quintus Aemilius Saturninus, prefect of Egypt, from Ammonios son of Horos and Orsenouphis son of Pa[…] and Peteuris son of Peteuris, from the village of Bakchias in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. It is the custom for the priests of Souchos, the great god, to pay an eight-drachma tax for poll-tax. We pay it to the collectors of the village, from whom we also receive receipts. Nothing else […] the worship of the gods. But of those who love (?) […], most great prefect, […] old (?) in the village […] we wish […] of the canals […] he himself, entering the house […] ordering them to work on the canals […] but if not, […] 120 drachmas […] help […] to order by your sacred subscription the strategos of the nome to compel the aforementioned persons to restore the 120 drachmas which they wrongfully exacted from us by forcing work on us, until the matter is judged, so that through your fortune we may be able to persevere in our work, not being pressed into labour by anyone, while paying to the treasury the customary eight-drachma tax for poll-tax, so that we may have received benefaction. Farewell. Ammonis and Orsenouphis and Peteuris have submitted it. They came themselves […] Year 7, Hathyr 12. [Subscription:] If no one prevents it, petition the most excellent epistrategos. Deliver.

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