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bgu.7.1572 17. Dez. 139Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Eingabe der Webergilde von Philadelphia an den Strategen via HGV-meta

Petition of the weavers of Philadelphia for exemption from liturgies. Petition from the weavers of Philadelphia in the Fayum to Dion, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Having been paid in advance to make public clothing, and having lost four of their twelve members to a service in Alexandria, they ask to be exempted from other compulsory services so they can complete this and an upcoming clothing order. Dated 17 December AD 139. machine translation

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Δίωνι στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοείτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ γερδίων κώμης Φιλαδελφείας. ἐπειδὴ εἰλήφαμεν ὑπογύως ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς[…], ἵνα ἱματισμὸν δημόσιον κατασκευάσωμεν …[…] μενοι ὄντες ἀπὸ τῆς ἐργασίας ἀνδρε…[…] τηκότες ἀπαρτίσαι τὸ κεκελευσμένον[…] τούτων τέσσαρες ἐδόθησαν εἰς ἐπι…[…] ἕνεκα τῆς χρείας ἀφῃρέθησαν ἀφʼ ἡμῶν καὶ εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐπορεύθησαν καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον ε[…]εγενόμεθα, ἀναγκαίως ἐπὶ σὲ κατεφύγαμεν καὶ αἰτοῦμεν, ἐάν σοι δόξῃ, ἐπιτρέψαι ἐαθῆναι ἡμᾶς τοὺς καταλειπομένους ἀπὸ τῆς τέχνης ἀπερισπάστους ἀπὸ πασῶν χρειῶν, ὅπως τὸν ἐγδεδομένον ἱματισμὸν[…]τελέσωμεν καὶ παραδῶμεν καὶ μάλιστα ὅτι ἐπίκειται ἡμῖν ἑτέρου δημοσίου ἱματισμοῦ ἔγδοσις, ἣν πάλιν ἡμεῖς ἀπαρτίσαι δεήσει, ἵνʼ ὦμεν πεφιλανθρωπημένοι. ἦμεν δὲ πρότερον ἄνδρες δεκαδύο , ἐξ ὧν οἱ τέσσαρες ἀπεσπάσθησαν, ὥστε νῦν εἶναι ἡμᾶς ἄνδρες ὀκτώ . ἔτους γ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς μηνὸς Ἁδριανοῦ κ.

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To Dion, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from the weavers of the village of Philadelphia. Since we recently received from the public bank […] drachmas of silver, so that we might manufacture public clothing […] being […] from the work, men […] having […] to complete what was ordered […] of these, four were given for […] on account of the service they were taken away from us and went to Alexandria, and still more […] we became, we have of necessity fled to you for refuge and ask, if it seems good to you, to allow that we who are left of the craft be left undisturbed from all services, so that we may finish and deliver the clothing contracted out […], especially since another contract for public clothing is imminent for us, which again we will have to complete, so that we may have received benefaction. Formerly we were twelve men, of whom four were dragged away, so that now we are eight men. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month of Hadrianos 20.

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