Fragment of a petition
Some priests of Socnobrasis are writing to the basilikogrammateus of the Herakleidou meris asking for exemption from the liturgy of working on dikes.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11179
Petition of priests of Sokombraisis for exemption from dike work TM 11179BacchiasA.D. 178(?)
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Opening of a petition from three priests of the god Sokombraisis at Bakchias to Apollonios, royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. They forward a copy of a petition they had sent to the high priest Ulpius Serenianus, asking to be exempted from compulsory physical labour on the dikes.
In English machine translation
[…] […]
To Apollonios, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
[from Sisois] son of Orsenouphis and Horos son of Peteuris and Peteuris son of Peteuris, the 3 priests, with others, of the god Sokombraisis
[of the village of Bakchias]. Of the petition which we submitted to the most excellent high priest Ulpius Serenianus, with certain supporting documents attached, and which was sent [to you] by the strategos of the nome, we have appended the copy below, so that we may be exempted from performing bodily labour on the [dike] works.
The god's name appears here as Sokombraisis, a form of Soknobraisis, the main god of Bakchias. The copy of the petition to the high priest, announced in the text, does not survive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de pétition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.bacch.22
[…]ς ι[…]…[…] Ἀπολλωνίωι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Σισόειτος Ὀρσενούφεως καὶ Ὥρου Πετεύρεως καὶ Πετεύρεως Πετεύρεως τῶν γ ἱερῶν σὺν ἑτέροις θεοῦ Σοκομβραίσεως κώμης Βακχιάδος. οὗ ἀνετείναμεν τῷ κρατίστῳ ἀρχιερεῖ Οὐλπίῳ Σερηνιανῷ βιβλιδίου παρακειμένων …