Home › Browse › DDbDP-text › Object 142924
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus

p.oxy.4.718 179 - 181Oxyrhynchos

Petition to the Epistrategus via HGV-meta

Petition to the epistrategos about dues demanded on royal land. Petition from Anthestius Primus also called Lollianus, a former high priest of Oxyrhynchus, to the epistrategos Titus Claudius Xenophon. He complains that forty years after buying land near Sennis, the village scribe claimed 4 arouras of royal land were mixed in with it and demanded 15 artabas of wheat in dues from him, and asks that the true holder be identified. machine translation

Source of record: Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 20417. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Τίτῳ Κλαυδίῳ Ξενοφῶντι τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρατήγῳ παρὰ[…] Ἀνθεστίου Πρείμου τοῦ καὶ Λολλιανοῦ […]σαντος καὶ ἀρχιερατεύσαντος […]τῆς Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν πόλεως […]ἐπριάμην μὲν παρὰ Διονυσίου ἐκ τοῦ[…]ου σὺν τῷ Ἀλεξάνδρουτὰς περὶ Σέννιν […]ὑπαρχούσας αὐτῷ ἐκ διαιρέσεως γενομένης πρὸς […]καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἀπολλώνιον νεώτερον ἀρούρας σιτικὰς πεντήκοντα δὺο ἥμισυ καὶ ἐν οἰκοπέδοις ἀρούρης ἥμισυ καθαρὰς ἀπὸ βασιλικῆς καὶ οὐσιακῆς καὶ ἱερᾶς ἀκολούθως ᾗ πεποίημαι πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς διαιρέσει τελοῦντός μου τὰ τῆς ἰδιωτικῆς μόνης δημόσια. χρόνῳ δὲ παμπόλλῳ ὕστερον μετὰ τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅπως τοῦ πράτου Διονυσίου ἀποθανόντος ὁ τῆς[…]…α κωμογραμματεὺς περὶ ὅν ἐστιν καὶ ἡ Σέννις ὡς ἐξ ἐπερωτήσεωςκτήτορος παρʼ οὗ δεήσει τὴν ἀπαίτησιν ποιήσασθαι δημοσίων ἀρουρῶν τεσσάρων βασιλικῆς ἐν πυροῦ ἀρτάβαις δεκαπέντε προσεφώνησεν τὰς τέσσαρας ταύτας ἀρούρας τῆς βασιλικῆς συναναμίγους εἶναι τῇ ὑπαρχούσῃ μοι γῇ τῶν πεντήκοντα τριῶν ἃς ἐπριάμην παρὰ τοῦ Διονυσίου καὶ […]ου, ὡς ἐκ τούτου δεῖν τὰ δημόσια ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ ἀποδοθῆναι […]υ μήτε βασιλικὴν συνανάμιγον ἐσχηκότος μηδʼ αὖ γεωργοῦντος μηδʼ ὅλως γνωρίζοντός τι τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ κωμογραμματέως προσφωνηθέντων ἔτι δὲ ἄνωθεν τῶν δημοσίων ἀποδιδομένων ὑπὲρ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀρουρῶν τεσσάρων ὡς εἰκὸς ὑπὸ ἑτέρων. ἐπεὶ οὖν βλάβη ἔπαθον οὐκ ὀλίγα, ἄδικον δὲ μὴ γεωργοῦντα ἀπαιτεῖσθαί με δημόσια ὑπὲρ ἀλλοτρίας γῆς, δέομαι, ἐάν σοι δόξῃ, γράψαι τῷ τοῦ νομοῦ στρατηγῷ ἵνα ᾧ προσῆκόν ἐστιν τοῦτο πρᾶξαι ἐπιστείλῃ κατὰ τὰ διατεταγμένα ἐνιευ[…]τὰς ὑπὸ τοῦ κωμογραμματέως προσφωνηθείσας ἀρούρας τέσσαρας βασιλικῆς συναναμίγους εἶναι τῇ ἰδιωτικῇ μου καὶ[…]προσφωνήσῃ τὸν ἐπικρατοῦντα παρʼ οὗ καὶ εὐλόγως ἡ ἀπαίτησις τῶν δημοσίων γενήσεται. περὶ γὰρ ὧν ἀπῃτήθην οὐ δέον δημοσίων μενεῖ μοι ὁ λόγος πρὸς τὸν φανησόμενον, ἀντιποιούμενον, ἵνʼ ὦ βεβοηθημένος. διευτύχει. […]Ἀνθέστιος Πρεῖμος ὁ καὶ Λολλιανὸς διὰ Ἀπολλωνίου […]ἐπιδέδωκα.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Titus Claudius Xenophon, the most excellent epistrategos, from […] Anthestius Primus also called Lollianus, formerly […] and former high priest […] of the city of the Oxyrhynchites. […] I bought from Dionysios son of […] together with the son of Alexander the […] arouras near Sennis, belonging to him from a division made with […] and his brother Apollonios the younger, 52 1/2 arouras of grain land and 1/2 aroura in building plots, free from royal, estate and sacred land, in accordance with the division I made with my brothers, I paying the public dues of the private land alone. But a very long time later, after forty years, somehow, since the seller Dionysios had died, the village scribe of […] in which Sennis also lies, as if in answer to an inquiry about the owner from whom the demand for the public dues on 4 arouras of royal land, 15 artabas of wheat, should be made, declared that these 4 arouras of royal land were intermixed with the 53 arouras belonging to me which I bought from Dionysios and […], so that on this account the public dues must be paid by me, although […] had neither held royal land intermixed nor cultivated it nor knew anything at all of what was declared by the village scribe, and moreover the public dues had long been paid for these same 4 arouras, presumably by others. Since therefore I have suffered no small damage, and it is unjust that I, who do not cultivate it, should be required to pay public dues for another's land, I ask, if it seems good to you, that you write to the strategos of the nome so that he may instruct the person whose duty it is to do this, according to the regulations, […] the 4 arouras of royal land declared by the village scribe to be intermixed with my private land, and […] declare the possessor, from whom the demand for the public dues may reasonably be made. For concerning the dues improperly demanded of me my claim will remain against whoever appears and lays claim, so that I may be helped. Farewell. […] I, Anthestius Primus also called Lollianus, through Apollonios, […] have submitted it.

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchus

Cross-references (3)

Similar inscriptions · by content embedding

About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
  • Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.