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Letter from Amenneus to Zenon

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Accession: JE48906
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: ca. 254 - 251 B.C.
Date: ca. 254 - 251 B.C.
Date range: 256 BCE – 250 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 34 x 12.5']
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Description

Amenneus the swineherd had been ordered by Zenon to fatten some pigs for the festival of Arsinoe. He did so, pawning his blanket to raise the money. But when he brought them down to a certain village, two of them were stolen; and the man who had taken taken them refused to give him satisfaction, pretending that the missing pigs had been eaten by a crocodile. So Amenneus begs Zenon to write to the villagers and the nomarch not to allow such things to be done. He complains also that a certain man, about whom he has already presented a petition to Zenon, will not let him pasture his pigs. On the verso is a note, in smaller handwriting, giving the names of three persons who had each stolen a pig; this seems to have been added on subsequent information

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek

Translations (1)

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To Zenon, greetings, Ammeneus, swineherd. Per your instructions to us for rearing the pigs for the festival of Arsinoe, having put my himation down as a pledge, I bought the pigs and reared them, so that you might not find fault with me. But as I was bringing them down, going off into the… 2 of our pigs were lost, and I found the man who had them; but he will return neither of them to us until you write to him, and by a crocodile… I did not take them away for myself… by those in the village that he may not take them (?). So write to them, and to Timotheos, so that no such thing may happen. And Se[..].s, concerning whom I gave you the petition, is not allowing me to graze the pigs. Farewell. These are the names of the men who have taken the pigs for themselves: K…[.]pis, son of Psenpesos, kômarchês, 1 pig. Aristoboulos, 1 pig; I pointed him out to the phylakitai. And at night 1 pig was lost, concerning which I went to see the phylakitai, and they said that it was at Leukippos’ house. (J. Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement, p. 268)

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Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 1022 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.858 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59379 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.3.59379 tier-1
HGV-Text 1022 tier-1

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