One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10047
Petition of Aurelia Maria against her brother over their parents' estate TM 10047Hermopolis (Arsinoites)ca. 346
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Petition from Aurelia Maria, daughter of Peeies, of the village of Hermoupolis, to Flavius Abinnaeus, commander of the cavalry unit at Dionysias. She complains that her brother Onnophris took all the property left by their parents and sold part of it, and asks that he be forced to produce everything for equal division. It dates to about AD 346, from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
To Flavius Abinnaeus, prefect of the ala of soldiers of the camp of Dionysias,
petition
from Aurelia Maria daughter of Peeies, of the village of Hermoupolis. My parents at their death left all their belongings, but my brother Onnophris has seized them all and sold some of them. For this very reason I ask and beseech your benevolence to compel him to bring everything forward, as I said before, so that it may be divided equally. And obtaining this I shall acknowledge my gratitude to your soul forever, lord.
They are as follows:
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This Hermoupolis is a Fayum village, not the city Hermopolis Magna. The list of belongings that followed 'They are as follows' is lost; 'ala' is a Roman cavalry unit.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.abinn.56
Φλαουίῳ Ἀβινναίῳ ἐπάρχῳ εἴλης στρατιωτῶν κάστρων Διονυσιάδος. δέησις. παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Μαρίας θυγατρὸς Πεειήου τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως. οἱ γονεῖςμου τελευτήσαντες κατέλειψαν πάντα τὰ ἀνθρώπια, ὁ δὲ ἀδελφός μου Ὠνῶφρις πάντα κατέλαβʼ αὐτὰ καί τινα ἐπώλησεν. διὰ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀξιῶ καὶ…