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p.nyu.2.3 Arsinoites
Petition for Redress via HGV-meta
Petition of an estate overseer against a negligent donkey-driver. A petition from Kallistratos, overseer of the animals on the estate of Livia and Germanicus Caesar in the Arsinoite nome, to the police chief Alkibiades. He complains that a donkey-driver he hired neglected and injured the donkeys, lost one, and kept sacks, pack-saddles and equipment, and asks that the man be arrested and made to pay compensation. machine translation
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- Petition for Redress HGV-meta Arsinoites5
- Petition APIS-papyrus From Arsinoite nome5 CE
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Transcription
Ἀλκιβιάδῃ ἐπιστάτῃ φυλακιτῶν
παρὰ Καλλιστράτου τοῦ Καλλιστράτου τοῦ προεστῶτος
κτηνῶν οὐσίας Λιβίας καὶ
Γερμανικοῦ Καίσαρος. τῷ
Χοιὰχ τοῦ διεληλυθότος
λδ ἔτους Καίσαρος προσείληφα
Πε[…]νιος ὀνηλάτην
ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τῶν ὀνικῶν
κτηνῶν μου, τούτοις δὲ διὰ τῆς
θερείας παραμεῖναι μέχρι
τοῦ Χοιὰχ τοῦλε ἔτους Καίσαρος
καὶ ἐκτελεῖν σύμπαντα
ὅσα καθήκει ὀνηλάτῃ· ὁ σημαινόμενος συγγνούς ἦν.
τόν τε χειμῶνα τοῦ λδ ἔτους
Καίσαρος ἀναστραφεὶς καὶ τὴν
θερείαν παραμείνας ἦν
ἀφαρπάσας ἐκ τῶν φορέτρων
τὰ ὑποκείμενα ὀνηλατικά,
τοῦ καλῶς ἔχοντος καταγνούς· τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐξαμελήσας τῶν ὄνων κατησθενήκασι καὶ τραυματίσας
ἀπολώλεκεν ὄνον μου ἄξιον
ἀργυρίου δραχμῶν […]
τὸν ο[…]καὶ εἰσαγαγὼν[…]τατην
ἐπεδ[…]ὄνον προπεπτωκ[…]του δὲ καταγνο…[…]ς τὰ λοιπά μου
κτήνη[…]τακται ἔτι ἀπὸ
Θωὺθ μηνὸς τοῦ λε ἔτους
Καίσαρος ἔχων μου σάκκους
τρεῖς[…], μὴ παραδούς μοι
μήτε τὰς σαγὰς μήτε τὰ λοιπὰ ἐργαλεῖα τῶν ὄνων, καὶ
ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου οἱ ὄνοι μου ἀργοὶ
καθεστήκασι. διὸ ἐπιδίδωμί σοι τὸ ὑπόμνημα ὅπως
ἀσφαλισάμενος τὸν ἐγκαλούμενον ἐξαποστείλῃς ἐφʼ οὓς
καθήκει καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτῶν ἐπαναγκασθῇ ἐκτεῖσαί μοι τὴν τοῦ
ὄνου τιμὴν καὶ τὰς τῶν
ὄνων ἀργίας καὶ τοὺς σάκκους
καὶ τὰς σαγὰς καὶ τὰ ἀργαλεῖα
εἰς τό με τυχεῖν ὧν προσήκει.
εὐτύχει.Translations (1)
To Alkibiades, chief of police (?),
from Kallistratos son of Kallistratos, the overseer of the animals of the estate of Livia and Germanicus Caesar. In Choiak of the past year 34 of Caesar I took on Pe[…]nis as donkey-driver, to look after my donkeys and to stay with them through the summer until Choiak of year 35 of Caesar, and to carry out everything that befits a donkey-driver; the said man agreed. He spent the winter of year 34 of Caesar and stayed through the summer, having snatched from the freights the donkey-driving charges set out below, disregarding what was proper. First, by neglecting the donkeys they have become weak, and by wounding it he has lost my donkey worth […] silver drachmas, the […] and having brought in […] donkey fallen […] and disregarding […] my remaining animals […] still from the month of Thoth of year 35 of Caesar he has kept three of my sacks […], not handing over to me either the pack-saddles or the other equipment of the donkeys, and as a result my donkeys have become idle. Therefore I submit this memorandum to you, so that you may secure the accused and send him to the proper authorities, and before them he may be compelled to pay me the price of the donkey, and for the idleness of the donkeys, and the sacks and the pack-saddles and the equipment, so that I may obtain what is due.
Farewell.
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