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A petition to Zenon, estate manager at Philadelphia in the Fayum, from the swineherd Thamous, who complains that Psosnaus assaulted him and drunkenly abused his wife by the river while he was guarding against crocodiles. Still unwell, he has hired a man to keep the pigs treading grain on the threshing floor, sends the letter by his wife, and asks Zenon to summon the accused and the witnesses so justice may be done.
Pigs were driven over the threshing floor to tread out the grain; the word translated 'pigs' (hiereia) normally means sacrificial animals. Part of the Zenon archive.
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 Zenon from Thamoys). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Thamoys the swineherd complains that, while doing something to protect the pigs against the crocodiles, he had been assaulted by Psosnaus. He is still laid up and has been obliged to hire a man to keep the pigs at their task of treading the corn, and he has sent the present lett…
Ζήνωνι χαίρειν Θαμῶυς ὑοφορβὸς ἐ[…]την. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ψοσναυ[…]ντος ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ […]ἵνα μὴ διασπάσηται κροκοδίλος[…]α, παραλαβών με Ψοσναῦς τὰς χεῖρας με προσήνεκεν καὶ τὴν γυναῖκά μου ἐπαροίνησεν ἐναντίον μαρτύρων Πετεμοῦνις καὶ Θοτεὺς τῶν παρὰ σοῦ γεωργῶν. ἔτι καὶ νῦν κακῶς …
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