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Petition of estate cultivators of Theadelphia about land taken over after sowing TM 11482Euhemeria? (Arsinoites)101 - 102 (?)

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Petition from two brothers, Onnophris and another son of Maron, cultivators of estate land from Theadelphia, to the strategos Claudius […] of the Themistos division of the Arsinoite nome. They complain that after they had sown allotted land near Euhemeria, Lysas son of Apollonios outbid them for the rent of plots they had worked, and that a certain Petesouchos harasses and obstructs them.

In English machine translation

To Claudius […], strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Themistos, from Onnophris and […]os, both sons of Maron, of the village of Theadelphia, both cultivators of estate land. In the present 4th year of Trajan Caesar the lord we were allotted for cultivation, from the land around Euhemeria of the first sealed parcel, 43 arouras, and from the unsown land added to the register of the cultivated parcel, which had emerged, likewise 8 arouras, we cultivating them because we were compelled to have them added to the register […] of the parcel, in all 51 arouras as stated above. But later, after we had done the sowing, a certain Lysas son of Apollonios came forward and undertook, for the said 8 arouras as if they were uncultivated, to pay rent on them at 2 artabas of barley each; and another 12 arouras of dry shore land which had emerged, which we had worked and sown at the proper time, the same Lysas out of spite came forward and undertook to pay rent at 5 artabas of wheat per aroura, and the […] […] Petesouchos [… 2 lines lost …] likewise after we had done the sowing […] 4 artabas […] of wheat […] we petitioned you and […] the royal scribe […] the inspector of sowing who came down to the village to examine […] the sowing was done by us and […] to him the proofs […] the aforementioned Petesouchos harasses and obstructs [… 2 lines lost …] was ruined […]

"Estate cultivators" (ousiakoi georgoi) farmed land of imperial estates (ousiai). "Sealed parcel" (sphragis) was a surveyed land unit; "shore land" (aigialos) was land newly exposed by receding water.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Litterae a colonis ad strategum scriptae). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 101 - 102 (?) · Euhemeria? (Arsinoites)

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