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Petition about flocks kept from watering places TM 10272Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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A petition by Herakleides son of Patynis of Tebtynis concerning the sheep and goats of his wife Psentouopis. He complains that four men of the village of Talei, whose names he does not know, prevented the flocks from reaching the watering places, and asks the official to order the village headmen and the chief of police to send the culprits before him. It dates to year 2 of Vespasian (AD 69/70).

In English machine translation

[…] from Herakleides son of Patynis […] from Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Of the sheep and goats of my wife Psentouopis daughter of Orsenouphis, grazing in […] […] […] from the same Tebtynis and from the village of Theogonis of the same division of Polemon, on the 22nd of the month Germanikeios of year 2 of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, four men of the village of Talei […] whose names I do not know […] to me […] how many […] sheep […] and they prevented our […] from coming to the watering places and […] not having. Therefore I ask you to write to the village headmen and to the chief of police to send the […] […] […] before you […] to be […] […] Year 2 of Imperator Vespasianus Augustus […]

Germanikeios is the honorific name used under the early emperors for the month Pachon. The addressee's name in the first line is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petizione). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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