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Petition to the strategos about money taken for wheat by a man who disappeared TM 10291Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)21. Okt. 137

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Petition to the strategos Vegetus also called Sarapion from two villagers of Soknopaiou Nesos, who paid 300 drachmas to a certain Horion to buy wheat from his father in the metropolis; Horion vanished with the money and a box containing a new belt, and his father denied everything. They ask that the petition be filed and both men be brought before the strategos. Dated 21 October AD 137.

In English machine translation

To Vegetus also called Sarapion, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Stotoetis son of Horion and Panoupis son of Tesenouphis, both from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos. A certain Horion came down to our village and urged us to go up to the metropolis and buy from his father Stotoetis, called the Small, wheat; and having taken from us 300 silver drachmas as the price of the wheat, to give to his father, he disappeared, carrying off also a box of mine in which there was a new belt. When we went to his father about the wheat, he denied having received the money or knowing where his son is. Therefore we ask that this memorandum remain on file with you, so that he himself may appear and be brought, and his father, before you, so that we may obtain justice from you. Stotoetis, aged 28, with a scar on the left cheek; Panoupis, aged 26, without distinguishing marks. Year 22 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Phaophi 24.

The day number 24 of Phaophi is partly restored. The physical descriptions of the petitioners at the end serve as identification.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to a Strategos). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 21. Okt. 137 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

Οὐεγέτῳ τῷ καὶ Σαραπίωνι στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Στοτοήτιος τοῦ Ὡρίωνος καὶ Πανούπιος τοῦ Τεσενούφεως τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. Ὡρίων τις κατελθὼν εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν κώμην προέτρεψεν ἡμᾶς ἀνελθεῖν εἰς τὴν μητρόπολιν καὶ ἀγοράσαι παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ Στοτῆ…