no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.mich.1.71 246 - 222 v.Chr.Arsinoites
Petition to the King from Attalos via HGV-meta
Petition of Attalos against a collector of private debts. A petition to King Ptolemy III from Attalos, complaining that Ptolemaios, an official charged with collecting private debts, failed to carry out an order to exact 43 drachmas from Apollonios the colt-breaker, who had not produced a woman named Apollonia. Attalos asks that the official himself be made to pay the triple penalty of 129 drachmas under the ordinance. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the later 3rd century BC. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 1970.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Petition to the King from Attalos HGV-meta Arsinoites246 - 222 v.Chr.
- Petition to the King APIS-papyrus Arsinoitesca. 246-221 B.C. (reign of Ptolemy III)
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ἄτταλος. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου μείους τοῦ Πτολεμαίου πράκτορος ἰδιωτικῶν.
γράψαντος γὰρ Σηράμβου τοῦ παρὰ Ἀριστομάχου καθεσταμένου στρατηγοῦ πρόσταγμα Πτολεμαίωι, ἐπειδὴ Ἀπολλώνιος
οὐδʼ ἔτι καὶ νῦν καθέστηκεν Ἀπολλωνίαν, ἐὰν μὴ ἔτι καὶ νῦν καταστήσηι ἐν ἡμέραις ι,
εἰσπράξαντα Ἀπολλώνιον πωλοδαμαστὴν δραχμὰς μγ ἀποδοῦναί μοι, καὶ λαβὼν τὸ πρόσταγμα καὶ τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου
οὐ καθεστηκότος τὴν Ἀπολλωνίαν καὶ ἐξελθουσῶν τῶν ἡμερῶν καὶ ἄλλου πλείονος ἐπιγενομένου χρόνου
ἀπαιτούμενος ὑπό μου τὰς μγ δραχμὰς οὐκ ἀποδίδωσι. δέομαι οὖν σου, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, μὴ περιιδῇς με ἀδικηθέντα ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ,
ἀλλὰ προστάξαι Ἀφθονήτωι τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Σηράμβωι ἂν ἦι ἀληθῆ εἰσπράξαντα Πτολεμαῖον τριπλῆν τὴν
πρᾶξιν κατὰ τὸ διάγραμμα δραχμὰς ρκθ ἀποδοῦναί μοι, καὶ ὦ διὰ σὲ τοῦ δικαίου τετευχώς.
εὐτύχει.Translations (1)
To King Ptolemy, greeting from Attalos. I am wronged by Ptolemaios the younger, son of Ptolemaios, collector of private debts (praktor idiotikon).
For when Serambos, deputy appointed by Aristomachos the strategos, wrote an order to Ptolemaios that, since Apollonios has not even yet produced Apollonia, if he does not produce her within 10 days, he should exact from Apollonios the colt-breaker 43 drachmas and pay them to me, he, though he received the order, and though Apollonios has not produced Apollonia and the days have passed and further time besides has elapsed, does not pay me the 43 drachmas when I demand them. I therefore beg you, if it please you, not to overlook my being wronged by him, but to order Aphthonetos the strategos to write to Serambos that, if this is true, he should exact from Ptolemaios the penalty threefold according to the ordinance, 129 drachmas, and pay them to me, and that I may through you obtain justice.
Farewell.
Connections
Found at
Arsinoite nome
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 1970 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;1;71 tier-1
- HGV-Text 1970 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 1970 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 1970 (see that record)
- find point — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 1970 (see that record)