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p.oxy.46.3302 300 - 301Oxyrhynchos

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Petition of Aurelia Serenilla to the prefect about seized inheritance and taxes. Petition to the prefect of Egypt, Claudius Cleopatrus, from Aurelia Serenilla, daughter of a former gymnasiarch and councillor of Oxyrhynchus. She complains that powerful men have seized property inherited from her father despite earlier orders restoring it to her, and that she is now being forced to pay taxes on it and detained in the public accounting office; she asks that the strategos be ordered to stop the collectors' abuses. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Κλαυδίῳ Κλεοπάτρῳ τῷ διασημοτάτῳ ἐπάρχῳ Αἰγύπτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Σερηνίλλης θυγατρὸς Συρίωνος τοῦ καὶ Εὐστοχίου γυμνασιαρχήσαντος γενομένου βουλευτοῦ τῆς λαμπρᾶς καὶ λαμπροτάτης Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως χωρὶς κυρίου χρηματιζούσης τέκνων δικαίῳ. ἔδει μὴ πρὸς τούτοις τοῖς ἀπευκταίως παρὰ τῆς τύχης μου συμ…[…] ἐπαχθῶς με βιάζεσθαι. ἀλλὰ γὰρ τῆς πρὸς τῶν γονέων κηδεμονίας[…] ἔτι μὴν καὶ τῶν καταλελειμμένων μοι μάλιστα ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑπαρχόντων ὑπὸ βιαίων καὶ δυναστῶν παρανόμως κρατηθέντων ἐγώ τε ἐντυχίαις ἐχρησάμην περὶ τῆς τούτων ἀποκαταστάσεως τοῖς πρὸς τῇ ἡγεμονίᾳ γεγονόσι ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τῷ σῷ μεγαλείῳ καὶ προστάξεις ἐφοίτησαν διʼ ἀποφάσεων καὶ ὑπογραφῶν ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ διαδικασιῶν γεγενημένον ὑπὸ τῶν ὑπὸ τῆς ἡγεμονίας δοθέντων κατὰ καιρὸν δικαστῶν ὥστε μοι καὶ τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν τούτων γενέσθαι καὶ εἰσαχθῆναί με εἰς τὴν νομήν. ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ μᾶλλον ἀνδρεϊζόμενοι περὶ τὸ βιάζεσθαί με οὐ μόνον τῶν ἡμετέρων ὑπαρχόντων ἀφείστασθαι οὐ βεβούληνται, ἀλλʼ ἔτι ὑποβάλλει με καὶ δι[…]συντελεῖν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ἀφʼὧν οὐδὲ τὴν πρόσοδον ἐκαρπωσάμην κ[…] τῶν πρακτήρων ειρ[…]η καὶ τηροῦμαι συνεχῶς ἐν τῷ δημοσίῳ λογιστηρίῳ οὐ δίκαια οὐ…[…] οὐδὲ ἄξια ἀλλὰ ἀνοίκεια καὶ τῶν νόμων καὶ τῆς τούτοις ἀκολούθως πρυτανευομένης ἡμῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ σοῦ μεγαλείου εἰρήνης. διὸ ἀξιῶ εἴ σου δοκεῖ τῇ τύχῃ προστάξαι διʼ ὑπογραφῆς τὸν στρατηγὸν μηδὲν ἄτοπον ἐπιτρέπειν γείνεσθαι κατʼ ἐμοῦ ὑπὸ τῶν πρακτήρων ἀλλὰ […]υς τοὺς τῇ βίᾳ καρπωσαμένους τὰ ἡμέτερα […]α ἀποδεδωκ…[…]…της παραδ[…]…[…]υσης ἐπι γειν…[…]…α ἂν διαφέροντα[…]…η δυνηθείην ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ συμμένειν …[…]…τος ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ[…]…σία ὁμολογη[…]διευτύχει. […] ἔτους ιζ καὶ ιϛ ἔτους …[…] εἴ τις […]…είγνυτο κ…[…] κολλήματος […] τόμου […]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Claudius Cleopatrus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, from Aurelia Serenilla, daughter of Syrion also called Eustochios, former gymnasiarch, former councillor of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, acting without a guardian by the right of children. I ought not, in addition to the misfortunes that have befallen me so grievously by my fate […], to be oppressively subjected to violence. But since, deprived of the care of my parents […], and moreover since the property left to me, chiefly by my father himself, has been unlawfully seized by violent and powerful men, I petitioned about its restoration those who held the prefecture before, and indeed also your Magnificence, and orders were issued through decisions and subscriptions, and also through proceedings held before the judges appointed from time to time by the prefecture, so that the restoration of this property was made to me and I was put into possession. But since, acting all the more boldly in using violence against me, they have not only refused to withdraw from our property, but he even subjects me also […] to pay taxes on behalf of it, from which I have not even enjoyed the revenue […] of the collectors […] and I am continually held in the public accounting office, things that are not just, not […] nor fitting, but alien both to the laws and to the peace administered for us by your Magnificence in accordance with them. Therefore I ask, if it seems good to your Fortune, to order by subscription that the strategos permit nothing improper to be done against me by the collectors, but […] those who by violence enjoyed the fruits of our property […] having restored […] so that I may be able to remain in my own […] on this […] agreed […]. Farewell. […] Year 17 and 16 […] If anyone […] Sheet […], roll […]

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