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bgu.4.1140 Alexandria
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Petition of the Jew Helenos son of Tryphon to the prefect about the poll-tax. Draft petition from Helenos son of Tryphon, an Alexandrian Jew, to the prefect of Egypt Gaius Turranius, complaining that he risks losing his civic status and being made liable to the poll-tax (laographia), apparently until reaching the exempt age of sixty. Written in Alexandria in 4 BC. machine translation
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TM 18584.
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- chrest.wilck.58 DDbDP-text Alexandria14. Febr. 4 v.Chr. (Tag unsicher)
- Eingabe an den Statthalter, Alexandrien HGV-meta Alexandria14. Febr. 4 v.Chr. (Tag unsicher)
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Γαίωι Τυρρανίωι
παρὰ Ἑλένου τοῦ Τρύφωνος Ἰουδαίου τῶν ἀπὸ Ἀλεξανδρείας .
ἡγεμὼν μέγιστε , ὢν ἐκ πατρὸς Ἀλεξανδρέως
διατρίψας ἐνταῦθα τὸν πάντα χρόνον
μεταλαβὼν … καθʼ ὃ δυνατὸν καὶ τῷ πατρὶ
τῆς ἀρεσκούσης παιδείας κινδυνεύω
οὐ μόνον τῆς ἰδίας πατρίδος στερηθῆναι ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τὸν […]… …ενοιαι…τον
…ειν βίαν. συμβέβηκε γὰρ Ὧρον
… δημόσιον οἰκονόμον[…]…τυβ
τρ…πο τῆς αἰτίας ἕνεκα[…]…αι τὸν
πατέρα μου ἔχειν πρὸς τὸν πάτριον αὐτοῦ
σχήματι
Ἰουδαικὸν ἀν…ῳ
χειρισας ιδα … τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐφ…ει
με …
κον… καισαρος […]τικου […]γεγραμμέ[…]…στι λαογραφίας […]…
…τη[…] ἀπὸ Μεχεὶρ
πρὸς τέλει ἕως …[…]
ἀπὸ … ιβ ἔτους ἕως […]…ρ…ουν[…]
περαιουν…ν ἐλλείποντος χρόνου τῆς
λαογραφίας διὰ τὸ τῶν ἑξήκοντα , ἀξιῶ σε
τὸν πάντων σωτῆρα μὴ παριδεῖν
τον υπ…
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
To Gaius Turranius,
from Helenos son of Tryphon, a Jew of those from Alexandria ⟦an Alexandrian⟧.
Most mighty ⟦most excellent⟧ prefect, being the son of an Alexandrian father, and having lived here all my life, and having received, as far as my father's means allowed, the appropriate education, I am in danger not only of being deprived of my own fatherland but also [...] into [...] force. For it has happened that Horos [...] the public oikonomos [...] on account of the cause [...] my father to have [...] towards his ancestral [...] ⟦and further also⟧ in Jewish manner (?) [...] having handled [...] from the [...] me [...] of Caesar [...] written [...] of the poll-tax (laographia) [...] from Mecheir to the end, until [...] from year 12 until [...] ⟦of the poll-tax⟧ [...] completing (?) the remaining time of the poll-tax on account of the age of sixty, I ask you, the saviour of all, not to overlook ⟦just as also by the⟧ ⟦former prefects I have been left undisturbed, so also by you the same, nor to you [...]⟧ [...]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 18584 primary
- DDbDP-Text bgu;4;1140 tier-1
- HGV-Text 18584 tier-1
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