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jjp.50.72_33 11. März 213 v.Chr.Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites, Ägypten)
Petition of an oil retailer about illicit oil sales by prisoners of war. Petition from Petoys, an oil retailer of Oxyrhyncha in the Fayum, to the oikonomos Apollonios, complaining that three prisoners of war, with some 30 others, were illegally selling oil and castor oil in the village market, bought from people who had plundered the oil cargoes. He asks that the oikonomos Metrodoros be informed; the verso records Apollonios forwarding copies to Metrodoros in 213 BC. machine translation
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- p.koeln.6.261 DDbDP-text Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites, Ägypten)11. März 213 v.Chr.
- Petition to the oikonomos Apollonios by the oil seller Petoys HGV-meta Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites, Ägypten)11. März 213 v.Chr.
- Letter to the Oikonomos APIS-papyrus Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites, Ägypten)Between 250 and 150 B.C.
- Petition to the oikonomos Apollonios by the oil seller Petoys APIS-papyrus Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites, Ägypten)Between 250 and 150 B.C.
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Ἀπολλωνίωι οἰκονόμωι παρὰ Πετῶυτος τοῦ Μαρρείους ἐλαιοκαπήλου
Ὀξυρύγχων. τῆι κη τοῦ Τῦβι τοῦ ι ἔτους …[…]ουσης τῆς νυκτὸς
Ἀθηνόδωρος […]α…ου καὶ Φίλων Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Θεόδοτος
Σωπάτρου οἱ γ αἰχμαλῶται παραλαβόντες […]…
κώμαις Ὀξυρύγχων αἰχμαλώτους ἅπαντας εἰς λ σώματα συναθροισθέντες εἰς τὴν κώμην καὶ ἐλθόντες εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν ἔχοντες
ἐλαίου […]…ατικοῦ […]…ε…α…ν…εν… καὶ ἐλαίου κνηκίνου λ…
εἰς χόας γ κίκιος […]…ε…ς β εἰς χόας β ἐπώλουν τοῖς ἐν τῆι κώμηι
[…]… τε καὶ η…[…] κοτύλια καὶ ταρ…η…ρ…και[…]ι
[…]…αντας σοι περὶ τούτων συναπέστειλαν
[…] τούτων τῶν τόπων καλῶς …
[…] ἐπήλθομεν ἐπὶ τὴν
[…] κῖκι ἡμῶν δὲ […]
[…]…ι τῶι φυλακίτηι
[…]…ιγεν…[…]
[…]τουσ[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
ἀφε…[…]…[…] δὲ τοῦ […]…[…]σ[…]φ…[…]…[…] τοὺς
γ αἰχμαλώτους ἀνήγαγεν ἐπὶ σὲ τοῦ ἐλαίου ἤδη ἠρμένου.
καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις γράψας Μητροδώρωι τῶι οἰκονόμωι, ἵνα συμφανὲς
αὐτῶι γένηται διότι οἱ αἰχμάλωτοι ἀγοράζοντες τὸ ἔλαιον καὶ
τὸ κῖκι παρὰ τῶν τὰ ἐλαικὰ φορτία διηρπακότων καὶ κατειργασμένων,
οὗτοι δὲ τῆι τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ ἐλαίου […]αφέσει πωλοῦσι ἐργασίαι
χρώμενοι. ἐὰν οὖν μὴ ἐπιστροφή τις γένηται περὶ τούτων
καὶ ἐπισταθῶσιν οἱ τοιοῦτοι ταύτηι τῆι ἐργασίαι χρώμενοι, συμβήσεται
ὥστε καὶ τὰ εἰς τὸ ι ἔτος ἐλαικὰ φορτία διαρπασθῆναι
[…] εὐτύχει.
[v]
Μητροδώρωι. τοῦ δοθέντος μοι ὑπομνήματος παρὰ Πετώυτος
τοῦ Μανρέους ἐλαιοκαπήλου ὑποτέταχά σοι τὰ ἀντίγραφα. ἔτους ι Τῦβι κηTranslations (1)
[recto]
To Apollonios, oikonomos, from Petoys son of Marreis, oil retailer of Oxyrhyncha. On the 28th of Tybi of year 10, during the […] of the night, Athenodoros son of […], Philon son of Alexandros and Theodotos son of Sopatros, the 3 prisoners of war, having taken along […] in the villages of Oxyrhyncha all the prisoners of war, gathered together up to 30 persons, into the village, and coming into the marketplace with […] oil […] and safflower oil […] at 3 choes, and castor oil […] 2 at 2 choes, they were selling to those in the village […] and […] small kotylai and […] […] to you about these matters they sent along […] of these places well […] we came upon the […] castor oil, but of us […] to the guard […] […]
[… lines lost …]
[…] brought the 3 prisoners of war before you, the oil having already been taken away. You will therefore do well to write to Metrodoros the oikonomos, so that it may become clear to him that the prisoners of war are buying the oil and the castor oil from those who have plundered and processed the oil cargoes, and these men sell, practising the trade under the [pretext?] of Greek oil. If therefore no attention is paid to these matters and such people are caught practising this trade, it will come about that the oil cargoes for year 10 too will be plundered. […] Farewell.
[verso]
To Metrodoros. Of the memorandum given to me by Petoys son of Manres, oil retailer, I have appended the copies for you. Year 10, Tybi 28.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 2486 primary
- DDbDP-Text jjp;50;72_33 tier-1
- HGV-Text 2486 tier-1
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