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p.mich.5.230 5. Febr. 48Talei (Arsinoites)
Petition to a Strategos via HGV-meta
Petition to the strategos about stolen beams and an assault at Talei. A petition from Papontos son of Papontos, a farmer of Talei in the Arsinoite nome, to the strategos Apollonios. Thieves took ten beams and a mortar from his house; he found five of the beams in the house of Patynion, who assaulted him, causing the child on his shoulder to fall and be gravely endangered, and he asks that Patynion be sent for trial. Dated February AD 48. machine translation
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- Petition to a Strategos HGV-meta Talei (Arsinoites)5. Febr. 48
- Petition to a Strategos APIS-papyrus Either Talei or Tebtynis, PolemonoFebruary 4, 48 A.D.
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Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
Ἀπολλωνίῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοείτου
παρὰ Παποντῶτος τοῦ Παποντῶτος
τῶν ἀπὸ Ταλεὶ τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος λεγομένου Ψεναμτῖτος γεωργοῦ
τῶν ἀπὸ Ταλεὶ τῆς αὐτῆς μερίδος.
ἐπιβάλλοντός τινος λῃστρικῷ τρόπῳ
εἰς ἣν ἔχω ἐν προγεγραμμένῃ κώμῃ Ταλεὶ οἰκίαν καὶ ἤροσάν μου
δοκοὺς δέκα καὶ ὅλμον, καὶ ἐμοῦ τὴν ἀναζήτησιν ποιουμένου σὺν τῷ τῆς κώμης Ταλεὶ ἐπιστάτῃ εὗρον ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρωι
ἐν τῇ Πατυνίωνος τοῦ Ἡρακλήου
οἰκίᾳ ἀπὸ μέρους τῶν ἠρμένων δοκῶν δοκοὺς πέντε , καὶ
ἐμοῦ λογοποιουμένου πρὸς αὐτὸν περὶ τούτων ὕβριν μοι
ἐπετέλεσεν οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν
καὶ ἐν τῇ συμπλοκῇ ἐξέπεσεν παρʼ ἐμοῦ εἰς τὸ ἔδαφος
ὃ εἶχον ἐπὶ τῶι ὤμῳ μου
παιδίον ὥστε ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου
κινδυνεύειν τοῦ ζῆν. διὸ
ἀξιῶ γράψαι τοῖς τῆς
Ταλεὶ ἐπιστάταις ἐκπέμψαι τὸν ἐνκαλούμενον Πατυνίωνα ἐπὶ σὲ πρὸς τὴν ἐσομένην ἐπέξοδον.
εὐτύχει.
η ἔτους Κλαυδίου, Μεχὶρ ι.
Παποντῶς ὡς ἐτῶν με, εὐμεγέθης, μελίχρως, οὐλὴ
ῥινὶ ἐξ ἀριστερῶν ὑπὸ ὀφρύν.Translations (1)
To Apollonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome,
from Papontos son of Papontos, of those from Talei in the division of Polemon, called Psenamtis, farmer of those from Talei of the same division.
Someone having broken in, in the manner of a robber, into the house which I have in the aforementioned village of Talei, they carried off from me ten beams and a mortar. And when I was making the search together with the epistates of the village of Talei, I found them red-handed in the house of Patynion son of Herakleios: part of the beams that had been taken, five beams. And when I remonstrated with him about these, he committed no ordinary outrage against me, and in the scuffle the child which I had on my shoulder fell from me to the ground, so that as a result it is in danger of its life. Therefore I ask you to write to the epistatai of Talei to send the accused Patynion up to you for the forthcoming prosecution.
Farewell.
Year 8 of Claudius, Mecheir 10.
Papontos, about 45 years old, of large build, honey-coloured complexion, a scar on the nose on the left under the eyebrow.
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Talei (Arsinoites)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 15169 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;5;230 tier-1
- HGV-Text 15169 tier-1
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