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Petition to a centurion about theft of inherited goods and assault TM 11225Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)
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A petition to the centurion Frourios Proklos from two priests of Soknopaiou Nesos, Pabous and Harpalos, sons of Melas. They complain that their co-heirs Stotoetis and Tanephronis broke the seals on their late father's stored household goods, stole them, and that Stotoetis beat them when they came to divide the estate; they ask that the culprits be summoned. It dates to the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.
In English machine translation
To Frourios Proklos, centurion,
from Pabous and Harpalos, both sons of Melas, priests of Soknopaiou Nesos.
When our aforementioned father died, lord, leaving as heirs us and Stotoetis and Tanephronis, we both deposited the household goods he left behind. Paying no regard to anything, the aforementioned Stotoetis, during our absence, came to the place where the household goods were stored, together with the aforementioned Tanephronis, while the seals of all of us were jointly affixed, and having removed the affixed seals they went in and stole everything we had deposited. Then, when we arrived to divide the property, Stotoetis, trusting in his own strength, attacked us and dealt us no ordinary blows. Therefore we ask that they be brought before you to give account for what they have done to us in this way. Farewell.
Year […] of the Aurelii Antoninus and Commodus, the lords Augusti, Thoth 23.
The regnal year number is lost, so the date can only be placed within the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. 'Household goods' renders endomenia, the movable contents of a house.
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 coups). 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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Φρουρίῳ Πρόκλῳ ἑκατοντάρχῃ παρὰ Παβοῦτος καὶ Ἁρπαλου ἀμφοτέρων Μέλανος ἱερέων Νήσου Σοκνοπαίου. τοῦ προγεγραμμένου πατρὸς ἡμῶν, κύριε, τελευτήσαντος ἐφʼ ἡμῖν καὶ Στοτοήτι καὶ Τανεφρόνι κληρονόμοις, κατεθέμεθα ἀμφότεροι τὴν ὑπὸ αὐτοῦ καταλειφθεῖσαν ἑνδομενιάν. οὐδενὶ λόγῳ χρησάμεν…