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p.oxy.1.71col1 28. Febr. 303Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Two Petitions to the Praefect via HGV-meta

Petition to the prefect Clodius Culcianus concerning an unpaid deposit. Petition from Aurelius Demetrios, former high priest of Arsinoe, to the prefect of Egypt Clodius Culcianus. He asks that the former gymnasiarch Aurelius Sotas be compelled to repay deposits of 2 and 20 talents of silver, which he needs to pay his own debts to the treasury, or else be sent to the prefect's court. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,1rp] Κλωδίωι Κουλκιανῶι τῷ διασημοτάτῳ ἐπάρχωι Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Δημητρίου Νείλου ἀρχιερατεύσαντος τῆς Ἀρσινοιτῶν πόλεως. τῶν μετρίων κηδεμόνι σοὶ ὄντι, δέσποτα ἡγεμών, τὴν ἱκετηρίαν προσάγω εὔελπις ὢν τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ σοῦ μεγέθους δικαιοκρισίας τυχεῖν. τῷ γὰρ ιζ ἔτει καὶ ιϛ ἔτει καὶ θ ἔτει τῆς εὐδαίμονος ταύτης βασιλείας Αὐρήλιος Σώτας γυμνασιαρχήσας τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως κατὰ δύο γραμμάτια ὡμολόγησεν ἔχειν μου παρακαταθήκην ἀκίνδυνον καὶ ἀνυπόλογον, ἓν μὲν γενόμενον ἐπὶ τοῦ Τῦβι μηνὸς ἀργυρίου ταλάντων δύο , τὸ δὲ ἕτερον ἐπὶ τοῦ Φαμενὼθ ἀργυρίου ταλάντων εἴκοσι , ἅπερ διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν γραμματίων ἐπηγγείλατο ἀποδώσειν ἄνευ δίκης καὶ κρίσεως καὶ πάσης ὑπερθέσεως καὶ εὑρησιλογίας. ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν μετῄειν αὐτὸν τά χρήματα ἐπὶ τοῦ στρατηγήσαντος Ἥρωνος, ἐπειράθη μέν τινα κακουργίαν ἐπὶ ἀποκ στερέσει τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ποιήσασθαι διὰ τὸ ἀγράμματόν με εἶναι, κ κατάφωρος δὲ ἐπὶ τούτῳ γενόμενος καὶ μέλλων κινδυνεύειν παρὰ τῷ σῷ μεγέθει ἠξίωσεν ἀπραγμόνως τὴν διάλυσιν τῶν χρεωστουμένων ποιήσασθαι. ἐπεὶ οὖν μέχρι νῦν διακρούεται τὰ χρήματα ἐκτεῖσαι καταφρονῶν μου τῆς μετριότητος, ἀξιῶ καὶ δέομαι ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτὸς χρεωστῶ τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμείῳ ἀπὸ λόγου ἐνδεημάτων ἧς ἐξετέλεσα ἐπιμελείας ἀννώνης, ἔτι μὴν καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἡμετέρας κτήσεως καὶ ὑπὲρ ἧς ἀνεδεξάμην τῇ πόλει ἀρχῆς, οὐδεμία δέ μοι ἑτέρα εὐπορία ἐστὶν ἢ τὰ χρήματα ταῦτα, κελεῦσαι εἴ σοι δοκοῖ ἢ τῷ στρατηγῷ ἢ ᾧ ἐὰν δοκιμάσῃς ἐπαναγκασθῆναι τὸν Σώταν μετʼ ἐνεχύρων λήμψεως κατὰ τὰ ἔνγραφα αὐτοῦ γραμμάτια νῦν γοῦν τὴν ἀπόδοσιν ποιήσασθαι, ἢ ἀγνωμονοῦντα παραπεμφθῆναι ἐπὶ τὸ σὸν μεγαλεῖον ἵνα καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ προτέρᾳ κακουργίᾳ κινδυνεύσῃ, πρὸς τὸ δυνηθῆναί με τὰ ἴδια ἀπολαβεῖν καὶ τὴν τύχην σου εὐχαριστεῖν. διευτύχει. Αὐρήλιος Δημήτριος ἐπιδέδωκα. ιζ ἔτους ιη ἔτους ια ἔτους, Φαμενὼθ δ [… 2 lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Clodius Culcianus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, from Aurelius Demetrios son of Nilos, former high priest of the city of the Arsinoites. Since you are the protector of people of modest means, my lord prefect, I bring my supplication, confident of obtaining justice from your Magnificence. For in the 17th, 16th and 9th year of this fortunate reign, Aurelius Sotas, former gymnasiarch of the same city, acknowledged by two contracts that he held from me a deposit free of risk and not subject to deductions, one made in the month of Tybi of 2 talents of silver, the other in Phamenoth of 20 talents of silver, which he promised through the same contracts to repay without lawsuit or trial and without any delay or evasion. Now when I pursued him for the money before the former strategos Heron, he attempted some fraud in order to defraud me, because I am illiterate; but being caught in the act and about to be in danger before your Magnificence, he asked to make settlement of the debts without legal proceedings. Since, then, up to now he evades paying the money, despising my modest station, I ask and beg, since I myself owe to the most sacred treasury on account of deficits from the supervision of the annona which I carried out, and moreover on behalf of our property and of the office which I undertook for the city, and I have no other resources than this money, that you order, if it please you, either the strategos or whomever you approve to compel Sotas, with seizure of securities according to his written contracts, at least now to make repayment, or, if he is obstinate, that he be sent up to your Greatness so that he may also face danger for his earlier fraud, so that I may be able to recover my own and give thanks to your Fortune. Farewell. I, Aurelius Demetrios, have submitted this. Year 17, Year 16, Year 9, Phamenoth 4. […]

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