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p.mich.3.174 144 - 147Arsinoites, Ägypten

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Petition to the prefect against a sailor-diver who extorted an imperial estate lessee. Petition to Lucius Valerius Proculus, prefect of Egypt, from Ptolemaios son of Diodoros, a lessee of imperial estate land in the Arsinoite nome. He complains that Isidoros, one of the state-supported sailor-divers of the water administration, through his agent Ammonios kept him from his lease, locked him out of his house, abused him and extorted money, and asks for a hearing before the local strategos; the prefect's endorsement refers the case to the strategos. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Λουκίωι Οὐαλερίωι Πρόκλωι ἐπάρχωι Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Πτολεμαίου Διοδώρου τοῦ καὶ Διοσκόρου τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ. τῆς ἐμφύτου σου, ἡγεμὼν κύριε, εὐεργεσίας εἰς πάντας φθανούσης καὶ αὐτὸς τυχεῖν δέομαι. εἶδός τί ἐστιν ἐν τῷ νομῷ ἐν ἀριθμῷ ἀνδρῶν οἳ καλοῦνται ναυτοκολυμβηταί, οὗτοι δημόσιοι ὄντες καὶ τῇ τῶν ὑδάτων διοικήσει ὑπηρετοῦντες προσμένοντές τε τοῖς κατὰ καιρὸν αἰγιαλοφύλαξι καὶ κατασπορεῦσι, διὸ καὶ ἀφίονται παντὸς ἐπικεφαλαίου καὶ πάσης λειτουργίας ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου σιτοῦνται καθʼ ὃ οὐκ ἐξὸν αὐτοῖς καθόλου ἑτέρᾳ τινὶ πραγματείᾳ παρενχειρεῖν. τούτων εἷς τις Ἰσίδωρος Μαρεῖ ἀνὴρ πάνυ τολμήεις καὶ αὐθάδης τῷ τρόπῳ διʼ ὑποβλήτων νοθεύων τὰς κυριακὰς μισθώσεις χάριν τοῦ διασείειν καὶ ἀργυρίζεσθαι καθʼ ὃ καὶ ἀποδείξω ἐπὶ τοῦ ῥητοῦ ἐπῆλθεν καὶ ἐμοὶ διʼ ἑνὸς τῶν ὑποβλήτων Ἀμμωνίου τινὸς ἐπικαλουμένου Καβοι ἀνδρὸς ἐπιμέμπτου καὶ διὰ τὸ ἀκόσμως βιοῖν προγραφέντος τυγχάνοντι οὐσιακῷ μισθωτῇ καὶ ἱκανοὺς φόρους διαγράφοντι εἰς τὸν κυριακὸν λόγον καὶ πρὸς τὴν μίσθωσιν ἱκανὰ ὑπαλλάξαντι οὐκ ἐῶν προσευκαιρεῖν τῇ μισθώσει ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ οἴκου ἐκκλείων καὶ ὕβρεις παρέχων μέχρι καὶ διέσεισέν με ἀργύριον. ὅθεν ἐπὶ σὲ τὸν πάντων ἀντιλήμπτορα κατέφυγον καὶ ἀξιῶ ἐπειδὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος παρῃτήσω τὴν εἰς τὸν νομὸν εἴσοδον κελεῦσαι γραφῆναι τῷ τῆς Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος στρατηγῷ διακοῦσαί μου πρὸς αὐτὸν διὰ τὸ τὰς ἀποδείξεις δύνασθαί με ἐπὶ τῶν τόπων παραστῆσαι ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὑβρίσθαι καὶ διασεσεῖσθαι ἵνα δυνηθῶ ἐν τοῖς εὐτυχεστάτοις τοῦ μεγίστου Αὐτοκράτορος καιροῖς καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπαφροδίτῳ σου ἡγεμονίᾳ ἀνεπηρεάστως ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ διαζῆν καὶ ὦ βεβοηθημένος. διευτύχει. Πτολεμαῖος Διοδώρου ἐπιδέδωκα καθὼς πρόκιται. ὁ στρατηγὸς τοῦ νομοῦ τὰ δέοντα ποιήσει. ἀπόδος.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Lucius Valerius Proculus, prefect of Egypt, from Ptolemaios son of Diodoros, also called Dioskoros, of those from the Arsinoite nome. Since your innate beneficence, lord governor, reaches all, I too ask to obtain it. There is a certain class of men in the nome, in a fixed number, who are called sailor-divers (nautokolymbetai); they are public servants who serve the administration of the waters and attend upon the shore-guards and the sowing-supervisors of the time, for which reason they are released from every poll tax and every liturgy, and moreover are fed from public funds, so that they are not permitted at all to engage in any other business. One of these, a certain Isidoros son of Mareis, a man exceedingly reckless and insolent in character, who through his agents corrupts the leases of the imperial estates for the sake of extortion and making money, as I shall prove at the proper time, attacked me too through one of his agents, a certain Ammonios surnamed Kaboi, a blameworthy man who has been publicly posted for his disorderly life, although I am a lessee of an imperial estate (ousia), pay considerable rents into the imperial account, and have spent considerable sums on the lease; he does not allow me to attend to the lease, but even shuts me out of my house and heaps insults upon me, to the point that he even extorted money from me. Therefore I have taken refuge with you, the protector of all, and I ask, since for the present you have declined your visit to the nome, that you order a letter to be written to the strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions to hear my case against him, because I can present the proofs on the spot concerning my having been insulted and extorted, so that in the most fortunate times of the greatest Emperor and under your charming prefecture I may be able to live undisturbed in my own home and may be helped. Farewell. (2nd hand) I, Ptolemaios son of Diodoros, have submitted this as stated above. (3rd hand) The strategos of the nome will do what is necessary. Give it back.

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