One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10719

Petition of beekeepers concerning a grazing dispute with shepherds TM 10719Arsinoites (?)161 - 192 (?)

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Fragments of a petition from beekeepers in a dispute with shepherds whose flocks grazed in areas where bees fed on flowering plants. It cites earlier rulings, including an order of the strategos Athenodoros and a letter of Claudius Sabinus to the strategos Claudius Dionysios, and mentions chiefs of police. It dates from the reign of Marcus Aurelius or Commodus, probably in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[Fr1] […] blooming […] of this plant […] since it happens to be bitter (?), we request […] […] they drove away the sheep long ago in accordance with what had been determined […] to repel […], the shepherds saying that they had driven them away […] the beekeepers having requested in the official minutes […] Athenodoros the strategos ordered the […] to be […]. Of the letter [the copy] […]: "Claudius Sabinus to Claudius Dionysios, strategos, […]. Since, after a confrontation of the parties held before me […] and the herdsmen, it was decided that the shepherds […] in the places which they were disputing, from the month Germanikeios […]. I therefore wish you, following both my judgment and […] […] in the records […] his […] […] […] [Fr2] […] […] copy (?) […] […] under Claudius […] the […] by Claudius […] […] to me and […] of the metropolis […] […] handwritten declaration […] To Herakleios, royal scribe, […] from Apollon[…] chiefs of police […] […] of the same […] concerning the customary […] […] to write […] […] [Fr3] […] according to the […] […]oros, both […] […] and chiefs of police […] […] of the beekeepers […] […] of the nome […] […] […] by you […] […] the [fortune (?)] of the Emperor […] […] [Fr4] […] […]nouphis […] […] and of the […] […] petition […] […] chief of police […] […] [Fr5] […] […] Harpokrat[…] […]metheus […] […] of Didymos, chief of police […] […] Amounis […] […] chief of police […] […] [Fr6] […] […] […] […]nouphis […] […] [Fr7] […] […] […] […] […] […] [Fr8] […] […] Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus […] […]maios son of Sarapion, I have submitted […]

The imperial titles Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus point to Marcus Aurelius (or his co-ruler). The archephodoi were village police chiefs.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition concerning Bees). 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 · 161 - 192 (?) · Arsinoites (?)

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