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p.nyu.1.1a 318 - 320Karanis (Arsinoites)
Petition to the Governor via HGV-meta
Petition of three Karanis farmers to the governor of Aegyptus Herculia. Petition from three farmers of Karanis, Aurelius Ousenouphis, Aurelius Heras and Aurelius Heron, to Valerius Ziper, governor of the province of Aegyptus Herculia. They claim to plead in the interest of the imperial treasury's revenues and describe themselves as cultivators of 15 arouras of land apparently belonging to landowners from the city; the rest of the complaint is lost. machine translation
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- Petition to the Governor HGV-meta Karanis (Arsinoites)318 - 320
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· Greek
Transcription
Οὐαλερίῳ Ζίπερι τῷ διασημοτάτῳ
ἡγουμένῳ Ἡρκουλίας Αἰγύπτου
παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Οὐσενούφεως Ἡρᾶ καὶ Ἡρᾶ
Ἀτισίου καὶ Ἥρωνος Ἀπίωνος τῶν
τριῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου
νομοῦ. τῷ μὲν δοκεῖν, ἡγεμὼν δέσποτα,
ὑπὲρ ἑαυτῶν τὸν λόγον προτινόμεθα,
ἔργῳ δὲ ἀληθεῖ καὶ δυνάμει ὑπὲρ λυσιτελείας τῶν φόρων τοῦ ἱερωτάτου ταμίου.
παρὰ σοὶ τῷ φιλαλήθει
ἔσμεν τοίνυν, ἐπεὶ ἀψευδεῖν δεῖ γεωργοὶ μὲν ἀρουρῶν δέκα καὶ πέντε Ἡρακλ…
[…][…]φνος καὶ […]ρου ἀπὸ τῆσδε τῆς πόλεως.[…]
εἰσὶν δὲ […]… λοιπῶν αὐτὸ γὰρ …
[…]εις[…]…γεωργοὶ …
[…]οντων[…]
[…]λούντων
[…]ὑποβαλλο[…]…
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
To Valerius Ziper, vir perfectissimus, praeses of Aegyptus Herculia,
from the Aurelii Ousenouphis son of Heras, Heras son of Atisios, and Heron son of Apion, all three from the village of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
To all appearance, my lord governor, we put forward this plea on our own behalf, but in actual truth and in effect on behalf of the profit of the revenues of the most sacred treasury. Before you, the lover of truth, we are, then, since one must not lie, cultivators of 15 arouras of Herakl[…]
[…]phnos and […]ros from this city […]
and they are […] of the rest; for this very […]
[…] cultivators […]
[…]
[…]
[…] submitting (?) […]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 12482 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.nyu;1;1a tier-1
- HGV-Text 12482 tier-1
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