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p.nekr.23 ca. 290 - 292Chosis (Oasis Magna, Ägypten)
Petition to the Prefect via HGV-meta
Petition of an undertaker to the prefect about his hereditary post. Petition to the prefect Titius Honoratus from Petechon son of Mersis, of the village of Chosis near Hibis in the Great Oasis. He complains that five people, described as exopylitai, are trying by force to oust him from the undertaker's post he inherited from his father, and asks that their violence be stopped. machine translation
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- Petition to the Prefect HGV-meta Chosis (Oasis Magna, Ägypten)ca. 290 - 292
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Τιτίωι Ὁνωράτωι τῷ διασημοτάτωι ἡγεμόνι
παρὰ Πετεχῶντος Μέρσιος μητρὸς Ταλαβῶνος ἀπὸ κώμης Χώσιος τῆς
Ἱβιτῶν πόλεως τῆς μεγάλης Ὀάσεως. τῇ σῇ δικαιοκρισίᾳ, δέσποτα
ἡγεμόν, θαρρῶν, ταύτην τὴν δέησιν πρὸς σέ, τὸν πάντων σωτῆρα, ποιοῦμαι
τῶν νόμων ἠρτημένην. τὰ δὲ κατ’ ἐμὲ διὰ βραχέων σοι παραθήσομαι· ὑπάρχει τῷ ἐμῷ πατρὶ τάξις ἐνταϕιαστική, ἥνπερ καὶ αὐτὸς
παρείληϕεν ἐκ γονέων, καὶ περιόντι ἐνέμετο πρὸς τὸν τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ
χρόνον, μετὰ δὲ θάνατον αὐτοῦ, ἀκήρατοί σου αἱ ἀκοαί, ὡσαύτως καὶ αὐτὸς
ἐκαρπωσάμην τὰς προσόδους τῆς τάξεως ἐκ διαδοχῆς τοῦ ἡμετέρου πατρός· οὐκ οἶδα δὲ τίνι λόγῳ Πειοῦς καὶ Πειοῦς νεώτερος καὶ Ἀπολινάριος
καὶ […]χιλλος καὶ Ταπααῦς γυνὴ Παρεψάιτος, οἱ πάντες ἐξωπυλῖται,
ὥσπερ ἀπὸ μακροῦ ὕπνου ἀναστάντες, μηδεμίαν ἀγωγὴν ἔχοντες
πρὸς ἐμὲ μηδὲ μετουσίαν, τυραννικῷ τρόπῳ βούλονταί με ἐξωθεῖν
τῆς προειρημένης τάξεως, τῇ ἐντάσει τῶν νόμων ἀπειθοῦντες καὶ …α
[…]ντες ευ[…]των διὰ το[…]…ι[…]ν πλοῦτος. οὐ μόνον δὲ τοῦτο
[…]…[…]…[…]λα…ωσι[…]ταξε[…] ἀλλὰ καὶ σ…α…ην
τ… τύχην …[…]βουλεύονται συνδυάζοντες ἀλλήλοις κατ’ ἐμοῦ τοῦ μετρίου τοῦ καὶ τὰς ἀναγκαίας τροϕὰς ποριζομένου ἐκ χειρῶν μετὰ μόχθων καὶ ἰδιωτῶν. ὅθεν προορώμενος τὰς συνεχεῖς αὐτῶν βίας
καὶ πλεονεξίας ἃς κατ’ ἐμοῦ ποιοῦσι, τὴν ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας σου καταϕυγὴν ποιοῦμαι, ἀξιῶν καὶ δεόμενος τὴν μὲν βίαν αὐτῶν εἰρχθῆναί
μου, ἐὰν δοκῇ τῇ σου […]…ου…[…]δεμοι
[…]…ητον π[…]…[…]
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
To Titius Honoratus, the most eminent prefect,
from Petechon son of Mersis, his mother being Talabon, from the village of Chosis of the city of the Hibitai in the Great Oasis. Trusting in your just judgement, lord prefect, I make this petition to you, the saviour of all, relying on the laws. I shall set out my case to you briefly: my father held an undertaker's post (taxis), which he himself also received from his parents, and while living he enjoyed it for the span of his life, and after his death, may your ears be undefiled, I likewise enjoyed the revenues of the post in succession to our father. But I do not know on what ground Peious and Peious the younger and Apolinarios and […]chillos and Tapaaus wife of Parepsais, all of them exopylitai, as if waking from a long sleep, having no claim against me nor any share, wish in a tyrannical manner to drive me out of the aforesaid post, disobeying the force of the laws and […] wealth. And not only this […] but also […] fortune […] they plot, combining with one another against me, a humble man who earns the necessities of life with his own hands through toil and as a private person. Therefore, foreseeing their continual acts of violence and greed which they commit against me, I take refuge at your feet, asking and begging that their violence be restrained from me, if it please your […]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 18862 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.nekr;;23 tier-1
- HGV-Text 18862 tier-1
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