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p.oxy.1.131 VI - VIIPatani (Oxyrhynchites)

A Disputed Inheritance via HGV-meta

Petition of Sousneus concerning a disputed inheritance with his brother David. A petition from Sousneus of the village of Patani to an unnamed superior about his inheritance. He complains that his younger brother David, after receiving their mother's property and half an aroura under their father's dying instructions, bribed the local headman Abraamios to have Sousneus detained and the father's estate redivided, and he asks that his father's wishes be upheld. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

† τῷ ἐμῷ μετὰ θεὸν ἀγαθῷ δεσπότῃδέησις καὶ ἱκεσία † παρʼ ἐμοῦ Σουσνεῦ ἐλεεινοῦ ὑμετέρου δούλου ἀπὸ Πάτανι. διδάσκω τὸν ἐμὸν ἀγαθὸν δεσπότην τὸ κατʼ ἐμὲ πρᾶγμα, τοῦτον ἔχοντα τὸν τρόπον. ἡνίκα ἔζη ὁ πατὴρ μου ἐκάλεσεν ἐμὲ καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἐμοῦ, λέγων ὅτι κρατήσῃ εἷς ἐξ ὑμῶν τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς μητρὸς ὑμῶν Ἰω[…]ραφη, καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας μου τρέφονται· καὶ ἐπῆρεν Δαυεὶτ τὸν μικρότερόν μου ἀδελφόν, καὶ δέδωκεν εἰς τὴν κτῆσιν τῆς μητρός μου. καὶ μέλλων τελευτᾶν ὁ πατήρ μου ἐκέλευσεν δοθῆναι αὐτῷ τῷ Δαυεὶτ ἐκ τῆς αὑτοῦ οὐσίας ἡμιαρούριον, λέγων ὅτι ἀρκεῖ αὐτῷ τὸ ἡμιαρούριον διότι καὶ τὴν κτῆσιν τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ἔχει. καὶ ἰδοὺ τρία ἔτη σήμερον ἀφʼ ὅτε ἀπέθανεν, ἅμα δὲ ἀπέθανεν παρεγενάμην πρὸς Ἀβραάμιον τὸν μείζονα Κλαυδιανοῦ, καὶ παρήνεγκεν τοὺς μάρτυρας τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐπάνω τοῦ πατρός μου, τοῦτʼ ἔστιν, Ἰούλιον τὸν πρεσβύτερον καὶ Ἀπολλών, καὶ πρὸς τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ πατρός μου ἐποίησεν γενέσθαι· καὶ καθʼ ἐνιαυτὸν σπείρω τὴν οὐσίαν μου, καὶ Δαυεὶτ ὁ ἀδελφός μου σπείρει τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς μητρὸς μου καὶ τὸ ἡμιαρούριον αὐτοῦ. καὶ σήμερον Ἀβραάμιος ὁ πορδουλεσθεὶς παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Δαυεὶτ ἐφύλαξέν με λέγων ὡς ἐὰν μὴ λάβῃ ὁ ἀδελφός μου τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς μητρὸς παρὰ μίαν καὶ τὸ ἡμιαρούριον ὃ δέδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ πατήρ μου, καὶ πάλιν μερισθῇ εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ αὐτὸν ὅσα κατέλειψέν μοι ὁ πατήρ μου· δέδωκεν δὲ τῇ μητρί μου ὁ πατήρ μου ρι νομίσματα ἵνα μερίσηται εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφούς μου, καὶ ταῦτα δέδωκεν Ἐλισάβετ τῇ μειζοτέρᾳ μου ἀδελφῇ. καὶ παρακαλῶ τὸν ἐμὸν ἀγαθὸν δεσπότην παρασκευάσαι πρὸς ὃ εἶπεν ὁ πατήρ μου φυλαχθῆναί μοι τὸ δίκαιον. †

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
† To my good master after God, a request and supplication † from me, Sousneus, your wretched servant, from Patani. I inform my good master of my affair, which is as follows. While my father was alive he called me and my brothers, saying: "Let one of you take possession of the property of your mother Io[…]raphe, and the others are to be maintained from my property." And David, my younger brother, took it up, and he (my father) gave him the estate of my mother. And when my father was about to die he ordered that half an aroura from his own property be given to this David, saying that the half aroura was enough for him because he also had the estate of his mother. And behold, it is three years today since he died, and as soon as he died I went to Abraamios, the headman of Klaudianos, and he brought forward the witnesses who had been present with my father, that is, Ioulios the priest and Apollon, and he had it carried out according to my father's words. And every year I sow my property, and David my brother sows my mother's property and his half aroura. And now Abraamios, having been bribed (?) by this same David, has had me put under guard, saying that unless my brother receives the mother's property except for one (?) and the half aroura which my father gave him, then whatever my father left to me is to be divided again between me and him. My father also gave my mother 110 solidi so that she should divide them among me and my brothers, and she gave these to Elisabeth, my elder sister. And I beseech my good master to arrange that, in accordance with what my father said, my rights be preserved for me. †

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