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Petition to a decurion about unlawful harvesting of wards' land near Herakleia TM 11317Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)21. Apr. 148

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A petition from Horos son of Satabous of Soknopaiou Nesos to the decurion Annikius Petronianus. He complains that four men harvested without right 4 arouras of land near Herakleia belonging to his orphaned nephews, which he had leased to a slave named Leontas, and asks that the culprits be brought to account. Dated 21 April 148 AD.

In English machine translation

To Annikius Petronianus, decurion, from Horos son of Satabous, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, residing at the hamlet of Pisai. The 4 arouras of allotment land belonging to my underage nephews, who are under my guardianship, near the village of Herakleia, I leased to Leontas, slave of Neilos, former gymnasiarch. And indeed, having learned that it had been harvested high-handedly by Horos son of Stotoetis and Satyros son of Chairemon and Sotas his brother and Horos son of Panoupis, while Leontas is not to be seen at present, I have of necessity come forward in person, and I ask that they be brought to render account for what they have improperly done. Horos, aged 46, scar on the little finger of the left hand. Year 11 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pharmouthi 26.

The addressee is a decurion, a junior cavalry officer who handled police matters in Roman Egypt. The 'kleros' is allotment land, originally assigned to settlers.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 21. Apr. 148 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

Ἀννικίωι Πετρωνιανῶι δεκατάρχῃ παρὰ Ὥρου τοῦ Σαταβοῦτος ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου νήσου καταγεινομενου ἐπʼ ἐποικίου Πισαί. τὰς ὑπαρχούσας τοῖς ὑπʼ ἐμοὶ ἐπιτροπευομένοις ἀδελφιδοῖς μου ἀφήλιξι κλήρου ἀρούρας τέσσαρας περὶ κώμην Ἡράκλειαν ἐμίσθωσα Λεοντᾷ δούλωι Νείλου γεγυμνασιαρχηκότος…