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cpr.17A.6 316 (?)Hermopolis
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Petition of three brothers expelled from a vineyard lease near Sarapieion. Petition from three brothers of the village of Tertomepa to Theophanes, strategos or exactor of the Hermopolite nome. They had leased vineyards and orchards near Sarapieion from the councillor Adelphios for a quarter share of the crop, but after they had done most of the work his steward Kopreas expelled them; they ask to be paid for their labour. machine translation
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- Bittschrift an einen Strategen / Exaktor HGV-meta Hermopolis316 (?)
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[…]Θεοφάνει στρατηγῷ ἤτοι ἐξάκτορι Ἑρμοπολίτου
παρὰ[…]…νου καὶ Ὥρου καὶ Ἀνούπιος τῶν τριῶν ἐκ πατρὸς Δίου ἀπὸ κώμης Τερτομεπα τοῦ αὐτοῦ νομοῦ. τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἐνιαυτῷ, στρατηγὲ ἄριστε, ἐμισθωσάμεθα παρὰ Ἀδελφίου
γυμνασιάρχου βουλευτοῦ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῷ ἀμπελικὰ χωρία δύο σὺν πωμαρίοις πέντε περὶ κώμην Σαραπιήου πρὸς μόνον ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα τῆς δ ἰνδικτίωνος
ἐφʼ ᾧ ἀνθʼ ἧς καὶ αὐτοὶ ποιούμεθα χειρικῆς ἀμπελουργικῆς ἐργασίας καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ὑπηρεσίας
λαμβάνειν ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκβησομένων ῥύσεων τὸ τέταρτον μέρος ἀκολούθως τῇ γενομένῃμισθώσει· τοιγαροῦν θαρροῦντες ταῖς γενομέναις ἐνγράφως συνθήκαις τὴν
μὲν πωμαρίων κοπὴν πεποιήμεθα, πεποιήμεθα δὲ τὴν τῆς ἀμπέλου καλαμουργίαν
παρὲξ μικροῦ παντελῶς τόπου. ἀλλ οὐκ οἴδαμεν ὅπως μηδενὸς γενομένου ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀδέλφιος ἀμνημόνως ἐσχηκῶς τὰς δεξιὰς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ φροντιστὴν Κοπρέαν ἀποστείλας
εἰς τὴν κώμην ἐπισχεῖν ἡμᾶς ὄντας ἐν τῇ καλαμουργίᾳ ὅς καὶ ἐξέωσεν ἡμᾶς
τῆς τῶν κτημάτων ἐπιμελείας, ὅθεν πάσης ἀφορμῆς καὶ ἀμφισβητήσεως
ὑφῃρημένης ἐπιδίδομέν σου τῇ ἐπιμελείᾳ τάδε τὰ βιβλία, μέτριοι καὶ αὐτοὶ παντελῶς
τυγχάνομεν καὶ σχεδὸν εἰπεῖν τῶν τροφῶν ἐπενδεόμενοι, ἀξιοῦντες
κελεῦσαί σε τοὺς μισθοὺς ἀποδοθῆναι ἡμῖν ὧν πεποιήμεθα καμάτων εἰς ὃ
τελοῦμεν …ρ… καὶ ἣν ἐθέμεθα μίσθωσιν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δύνασθαι ἡμᾶς ἀπολαβόντας
τούτους καταθέσθαι εἰς ἃ π[…]…λ…σάμεθα ἐν τῷ … […]
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[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
[To …] Theophanes, strategos or exactor of the Hermopolite nome,
from […]nos and Horos and Anoupis, all three sons of Dios, from the village of Tertomepa of the same nome. In the present year, most excellent strategos, we leased from Adelphios, gymnasiarch and councillor of the same city, two vineyard plots belonging to him together with five orchards near the village of Sarapieion, for one single year of the 4th indiction,
on condition that, in return for the manual vine-dressing work and the other service which we ourselves perform,
we receive one fourth part of the yield that will come forth, in accordance with the lease that was made. Accordingly, trusting in the written agreements that were made, we have carried out
the pruning of the orchards, and we have carried out the reed-work of the vineyard
except for a very small area. But we do not know how, with nothing having happened, the same Adelphios, forgetful of his pledges, sent his own steward Kopreas
to the village to stop us while we were engaged in the reed-work, and he also drove us out
of the care of the estates. Therefore, since every pretext and dispute
has been removed, we submit this petition to your diligence, being ourselves utterly poor
and, so to speak, lacking even food, asking
that you order the wages for the labours we have performed to be paid to us, for which
we pay […] and the lease which we made, so that we may, having received
these, deposit them for what we […] in the […]
[…]
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