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Petition from Maron son of Pnepheros, a public farmer of Theadelphia, to Eudoros, strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome. He reports that some time ago a man came like a robber to his threshing floor intending to set it on fire but fled because of the people sleeping and guarding there; the rest is lost.
A 'public farmer' (demosios georgos) cultivated state-owned land under lease. The catalogue describes this as a complaint about attempted theft, but the surviving text speaks of an attempt to set fire to the threshing floor.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte pour une tentative de vol). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Εὐδώρῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοΐτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδων παρὰ Μάρωνος τοῦ Πνεφερῶτος δημοσίου γεωργοῦ κώμης Θεαδελφείας. πρὸ πολλῶν ἡμερῶν, κύριε, ἐπῆλθέν τις λῃστρικῷ τρόπῳ τῇ ἁλωνείᾳ μου βουλόμενος πῦρ προσβαλεῖν καὶ μὴ ἰσχύσας ἐμπρῆσαι διὰ τοῦς ἐκεῖ κοιμωμένους καὶ φυλάσσοντα…
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