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p.mich.6.421 41 - 68Karanis (Arsinoites)
Petition concerning Theft and Maltreatment via HGV-meta
Petition concerning theft of donkeys and maltreatment by village police. End of a petition from a man of Karanis whose two white donkeys, worth 290 drachmas, were stolen from his stable one night in Pharmouthi under the emperor Claudius. He and the Karanis police chief Pankrates tracked the thieves toward Bacchias, but the Bacchias police chief Pasion and the gate guards detained them for three days, robbed them and beat the petitioner, until the village scribe and elders secured their release. machine translation
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- Petition concerning Theft and Maltreatment HGV-meta Karanis (Arsinoites)41 - 68
- Petition concerning Theft and Maltreatment APIS-papyrus Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoreign of Claudius (rather than Nero[?]) (41-68 A.D.)
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Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…]…[…]
…[…]… ἀρο οε … νυκτὶ τη[…]
τοῦ Φαρμοῦθι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος[…]
Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ
Αὐτοκράτορος, τινὲς λῃστρικῶι τρόπωι
διώρυξαν τὴν τῶν ἡμετέρων ὄνων
αὐλὴν καὶ ἔνδον γενόμενοι ἀπήλασάν μου
ὄνους λευκοὺς δύο τελείους τιμηθέντας
δραχμῶν σϙ καὶ ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐπέδωκα τῷ τῆς Καρανίδος ἀρχεφόδωι Πανκράτηι ὑπόμνημα καὶ σὺν τούτωι γεμίσας ἕτερον ὄνον ὕδατος καὶ τροφῶν
ἕτερον ἐξωρμήσαμεν, τοὺς αἰτίους ἰχνοσκοποῦντες ὅθεν εὕρομεν τὴν πορείαν
εἰς τὰ μέρηι τῆς Βακχιάδος γεγονέναι
καὶ πάλιν εἰς τὸ ὄρος. ὁ δὲ τῆς Βακχιάδος ἀρχέφοδος Πασίων καὶ οἱ πρὸς τῇ πύληι ἐκώλυσαν ἡμᾶς ἤδη μελλόντων τοὺς αἰτίους καταλαμβάνειν παρʼ ἑαυτοῖς· κατείχοσαν ἐμέ
τε καὶ τὸν τῆς Καρανίδος ἀρχέφοδον καὶ τὰ μὲν
ὕδατα κατεάξαντες καὶ τὰς κράνους ἀφαρπάσαντες ἐν συνοχῆι ἐποίησαν ἐφʼ ἡμέρας τρεῖς
ἕως μὴ δυνασθῶμεν συνλαβεῖν τοὺς αἰτίους.
ἔπειτα ἀπενεγκάμενοι ἡμῶν σαγὰς δύο καὶ τοὺς
ἄρτους καὶ μηλωτὴν καὶ χιλωκτὰ δύο καὶ κατῄκισάν με πληγαῖς καὶ εἰποντες ὁ κωμογραμματεὺς καὶ οἱ
πρεσβύτεροι ἠνάγκασαν ἡμᾶς ἀπολυθῆναι. ἀξιῶ ἀντιληφθῆναι
ὑπὸ σοῦ.Translations (1)
[…] […]
[…] […] in the night […]
of Pharmouthi of the current […] (year?)
of Tiberius (?) Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Imperator, some persons in the manner of robbers
dug through the stable of our donkeys
and, having got inside, drove off my
two full-grown white donkeys, valued
at 290 drachmas. Concerning these I submitted to Pankrates, the chief of police of Karanis, a memorandum, and together with him, having loaded another donkey with water and provisions,
we set out on another (donkey?), tracking the culprits, whence we found that their route
had gone into the district of Bacchias
and back again into the desert. But Pasion, the chief of police of Bacchias, and the men at the gate prevented us, when we were already about to catch the culprits, at their own place; they detained me
and the chief of police of Karanis, and having broken our water jars and snatched away our helmets (?), they held us in confinement for three days
so that we could not arrest the culprits.
Then, having carried off our two cloaks and the
loaves and a sheepskin and two fodder bags (?), they also maltreated me with blows, and when the village scribe and the
elders spoke, they compelled them to release us. I ask to receive help
from you.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 12260 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;6;421 tier-1
- HGV-Text 12260 tier-1
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