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p.mich.18.773 ca. 194 B.C.Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Complaint via APIS-papyrus
Petition of a goldsmith about beating and seizure of silver and a necklace. A petition, probably by the goldsmith Menches to an official, complaining that although he had paid his monthly dues of 1,300 drachmas through Pachon, Ptolemaios and Menelaos seized him in a silversmiths' workshop at Krokodilopolis, had him whipped, and took a lump of silver and a necklace worth 108 drachmas. He asks that both men be summoned so he can obtain justice and recover his property. It dates to around 194 BC in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation
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TM 8767.
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- Complaint APIS-papyrus Arsinoite nome, Egyptca. 194 B.C.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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[…]λωι […]καταβαλόντος μου κατὰ
μῆνα δραχμὰς Ατ καὶ εὐτακτηκότος μου ἕως Παχὼν
ὧν τὰ σύμβολα ἔχω.
τῆι δὲ ε τοῦ Παῦνι
εὑρών με ὁ Πτολεμαῖος
ἐν τῶι ἀργυροκοπίωι ἐν Κροκοδίλων πόλει κατέστησέ με ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν
καὶ παρέδωκεν Μενελάωι
τῶι κατὰ πόλιν καί μου λέγοντος μηθὲν ὀφείλειν συνέταξεν ἐπιστῆσαί μοι μάστιγας καὶ διαληφθέντος μου
εὕροσαν ἔχοντά με βῶλον
ἀργυρίου καὶ κάθεμα ἃ καὶ
ἀφείλετό μου ἅπαντα δραχμῶν ρη Μενέλαος
καὶ προσαπήγαγεν ἕως
πρωί τά τε προειρημένα
ἀποστερεῖ με· ἀξιῶ οὖν
σε μεταπέμψασθαι τόν τε
Μενέλαον καὶ Πτολεμαῖον
ὅπως διὰ σοῦ τὰ δίκαιά μοι
γένηται καὶ κομίσωμαι τὰ ἐνκαλούμενα.
εὐτύχει.Translations (1)
[…]
[…] I having paid each month 1,300 drachmas and having been regular in my payments up to Pachon, for which I have the receipts. But on the 5th of Pauni Ptolemaios, finding me in the silversmiths' workshop in Krokodilopolis, brought me before the bank and handed me over to Menelaos, the city official (?), and when I said that I owed nothing, he ordered whips to be applied to me, and when I had been seized they found that I had a lump of silver and a necklace, all of which Menelaos took from me, worth 108 drachmas, and moreover he led me off (to custody) until morning, and he is depriving me of the aforesaid things. I therefore ask you to summon both Menelaos and Ptolemaios, so that through you I may obtain justice and recover what is claimed.
Farewell.
Connections
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Arsinoite nome
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 8767 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;18;773 tier-1
- HGV-Text 8767 tier-1
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