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bgu.3.983 138 - 161Karanis (Arsinoites)
Eingabe an den ἐπιστράτηγος via HGV-meta
Petition to the epistrategos against a boundary-marker of Karanis. Petition to the epistrategos from Aphrodisios son of Petheus of Karanis and his sister-wife Herais, complaining about a village boundary-marker who also acted as census-taker. They accuse him of irregularities in a property sale and census records, of holding the boundary office longer than permitted, and of leaving his own two children unregistered. machine translation
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- Eingabe an den ἐπιστράτηγος HGV-meta Karanis (Arsinoites)138 - 161
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[…]τῶι κρατίστωι ἐπιστρατήγωι
παρὰ[…] τοῦ καὶ Ἀφροδεισίου Πεθέως ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος
τοῦ Ἀρσινοΐτου νομοῦ καὶ τῆς ἀδελφῆς μου Ἡραίδος τῆς καὶ γυναικός. οὐκ ἄν τις ἐπὶ τὸ
βῆμά σου καταφύγοι, εἰ μὴ σφόδρα ἀδικηθείη τι. αὐτοὶ οὖν πλημμεληθέντες ὑπὸ
[…] ὁριοδείκτου πεδίων τῆς κώμης ἐντυγχάνομέν σοι οὕτως κύριε,
[…]Ἡραίδι τῇ προγεγραμμένῃ τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὑτῷ
μέρος μητρικῆς αὑτοῦ οἰκίας καὶ αὐλῆς καὶ χορτοθήκης ὄντων ἐν κώμῃ Καρανίδι κατὰ δισσὸν χειρόγραφον ἔτους[…]Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου μηνὶ Φαρμοῦθι λαογράφος τυγχάνων καὶ τὴν ἐξουσίαν τῶν βιβλίων ἔχων, ὃ πέπρακεν ἐν τῇ κατʼ οἰκίαν ἀπογραφῇ κατὰ χειρόγραφον αὐτοῦ ἓν καὶ ἔνθα δημοσιωσάσης αὐτὸ καὶ μεταδούσης
[…]…εισ[…]…σαι ἐδήλωσε[…] τὴν περιου[…]ει[…] πρώτω[…]ειτου ζῶντα καὶ τεθνηκότα […]…
[…] ὄντος ἠλασσωμέν[…]τον πρὸς τελε[…] ὀνόματος ἐμ[…]
[…]ἔτους[…]Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου μηνὶ Μεχεὶρ καὶ τῷ αὐτῷ ἔτει μηνὶ Φ[…]
[…]Πεθεὺς[…]χου ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν διέγραψεν καὶ τῷ Παῦνι μηνὶ ὁ αὐτὸς ὑ[…]
[…]εἰς τὸ δημόσιον τὰ ἐπικεφάλια ἑαυτοῦ, καθολικῶς, κύριε, διαταχθέντοςπλέον[…]ετίας μὴ ὁριοδεικτεῖν, οὗτος ἤδη τριῶν κωμογραμματέων
[…]ας ἑξαετεῖ χρόνῳ ὁριοδείκτης τυγχάνει παρὰ τὰ ἀπειρημένα
[…]μεθαριω Ἀμμωνίου τοῦ Ἁρπαγάθου ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης
[…]… Ἀφροδείσιον καὶ Οὐαλέριον οὕτως πάλιν ἐν τῇ κατʼ οἰκίαν ἀπογραφῇ[…]καν Θαήσιον Ὀρσενούφεως ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ὡς ἰδίαν
[…] τὰ δύο ἑαυτοῦ τέκνα ἀναπόγραφα ἐποίησεν ἐκ πολλῶν
ἤδη χρόνων[…]τοῦ αὐτοῦ φανεροῦ ὄντος …[…]ισ[…]υς τὸν κύριόν σου χρηματισμὸν ἐλπίζομεν τῆς ἀπὸ σοῦ βοηθείας τυχεῖν. διευτύχει.Translations (1)
To the most excellent epistrategos,
from […] also called Aphrodisios, son of Petheus, from the village of Karanis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, and from my sister Herais, who is also my wife. No one would take refuge at your tribunal unless he had been very greatly wronged. We, therefore, having been wronged by […], boundary-marker of the fields of the village, petition you as follows, lord:
[…] to Herais, named above, the share falling to him of his mother's house and courtyard and hay-barn, which are in the village of Karanis, according to a double handwritten contract of year […] of Antoninus Caesar the lord, in the month of Pharmouthi, he being a census-taker (laographos) and having authority over the records, which he sold, in the house-by-house census according to his own handwritten deed, one and the same, and when she had registered it publicly and communicated […] he declared […] the surplus (?) […] first […] living and dead […] being diminished (?) […] towards […] name […]
[…] in year […] of Antoninus Caesar the lord, in the month of Mecheir, and in the same year in the month of Ph[…] Petheus son of […]chos, our father, paid, and in the month of Pauni the same […] to the treasury his poll taxes. Although it has been ordered generally, lord, that no one is to serve as boundary-marker for more than […] years, this man has already for three village scribes […] for a period of six years been boundary-marker, contrary to what is forbidden […] Ammonios son of Harpagathes from the same village […] Aphrodisios and Valerius, thus again in the house-by-house census […] Thaesion daughter of Orsenouphis from the same village as his own […] he has left his own two children unregistered for many years now […] the same being evident […] your lordly decision, we hope to obtain help from you. Farewell.
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