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Complaint about a man who absconded with money for wheat TM 11223Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)21. Okt. 137
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A complaint to the strategos Vegetus alias Sarapion by two villagers of Soknopaiou Nesos, Stotoetis and Panoupis. A man named Horion took 300 drachmas from them to buy wheat from his father, then vanished, and the father denied everything; they ask that the complaint be kept on file and the father be made to produce his son. Dated 21 October 137.
In English machine translation
To Vegetus also called Sarapion, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome,
from Stotoetis son of Horion and Panoupis son of Tesenouphis, 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 Mikros ("the Small"), mika(?) wheat. Having received from us 300 silver drachmas toward the price of the wheat, to give to his father, he disappeared. When we approached his father about the wheat, he too denied both having received the money and knowing where his son is. Therefore we ask that this memorandum remain on record with you until Horion appears, and that his father be brought to produce him, so that we may have received help from you.
Stotoetis, aged 28, scar on the left cheek; Panoupis, aged 25, without distinguishing marks.
Year 22 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian, Phaophi 24.
The word "mika" before "wheat" is unexplained, possibly a scribal slip anticipating the father's nickname Mikros. The petitioners ask only for registration of the complaint (katachorismos), a common precaution pending further action.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte pour escroquerie). 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.gen.1.28
p.gen.1.2ed.28
Οὐεγέτωι τῶι καὶ Σαραπίωνι στρατηγῶι Ἀρσινοείτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Στοτοήτιος τοῦ Ὡρίωνος καὶ Πανούπιος τοῦ Τεσενούφεως τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. Ὡρίων τις κατελθὼν εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν κώμην προετρέψατο ἡμᾶς ἀνελθεῖν εἰς τὴν μητρόπολιν καὶ ἀγοράσαι παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ …