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Petition from Beekeepers via HGV-meta
Petition of beekeepers about hives sabotaged at Toka. Petition to the strategos Herostratos from two Oxyrhynchite beekeepers, Herakleios and Onnophris, reporting that 87 of their registered hives kept in a house at Toka had been damaged. The house owner told them that the gymnasiarch Sarapion son of Theon and his men had secretly sealed the hives by night, so that many bees died. Written at Oxyrhynchus in September AD 16. machine translation
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- Petition from Beekeepers HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos14. - 27. Sept. 16
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Transcription
Ἡροστράτωι στρατηγῶι
παρὰ Ἡρακλείου καὶ Ὀννώφριος ἀμφοτέρων Σαραπίωνος
τῶν ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως μελισσουργῶν.
ὑπάρχει ἡμῖν καὶ τοῖς τοῦ Ἡρακλείου υἱοῖς σμήνη
μελίσσεια τετρακόσια ὀγδοήκοντα ἑπτὰ ἀφʼ ὧν
εἴχομεν ἐν κώμηι Τόκα τῆς μέσης τοπαρχίας
ἐν τόπωι λεγομένωι Πέτνηι ἐν τῆι Διογένους οἰκίᾳ
σμήνη ὀγδοήκοντα ἑπτὰ ἀκολούθως ᾗ πεποιήμεθα τῶι διεληλυθότι β ἔτει Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ ἀπογραφῆι. τῆι δὲ ιζ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ
τοῦ γ ἔτους Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ παραγενηθέντων
ἡμῶν εἰς τὸν δηλούμενον τόπον πρὸς τὴν τῶν
σμηνῶν ἐπίσκεψιν, εὕρομεν μέρος τῶν σμηνῶν διεφθαρμένον, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ σμήνη ἀπὸ
ἀσθενείας ὄντα ὥστε κινδυνεύειν λειφθῆναι. καὶ πάραυτα ἐπηρωτήσαμεν τὸν τῆς οἰκίας κύριον
Διογένην περὶ τούτων καὶ ἔφη μοι ὑπὸ Σαραπίωνος
τοῦ Θέωνος γυμνασιάρχου μεθʼ ὧν ἐπήγαγεν
σὺν αὐτῶι διὰ νυκτὸς λαθραίως τὰ ὅλα σμήνη
ἔνδον πηλῷ πεφράχθαι ἐφʼ ἱκανὰς ἡμέρας
καὶ μηδεμίαν ἔχειν τὰ σμήνη διέξοδον τοῦ νε[…]… καὶ συμβέβηκεν μέρη του
[…]…[…]…[…]…[…]…[…]…εν
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To Herostratos, strategos,
from Herakleios and Onnophris, both sons of Sarapion, beekeepers from the city of Oxyrhynchus.
We and the sons of Herakleios possess 487 beehives, of which we had in the village of Toka in the middle toparchy, in the place called Petne, in the house of Diogenes, 87 hives, in accordance with the return we made in the past year 2 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus. On the 17th of the present month Sebastos of year 3 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, when we came to the said place for the inspection of the hives, we found part of the hives destroyed, and the remaining hives in such a weak state as to be in danger of being lost. And at once we questioned the owner of the house, Diogenes, about these things, and he told me that by Sarapion son of Theon, gymnasiarch, with those whom he brought with him, secretly by night all the hives had been [blocked up inside with mud] for many days, [and that] the hives [had no] outlet for […] and it has happened that parts of the […]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 78614 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;67;4582 tier-1
- HGV-Text 78614 tier-1
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