Petition about sheep grazing on crops of an imperial estate at Bakchias TM 11747Bakchias (Arsinoites, Ägypten)14 - 19

Petition to Dionysodoros, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Psenatymis son of Petesouchos, a farmer at Bakchias on estate land belonging to Julia Augusta and Germanicus Caesar. He complains that two shepherds let their sheep graze on his remaining sown crops even after earlier damage had been inspected, and asks that they be brought before the strategos. It dates to about AD 14-19.

In English machine translation

Julia Augusta is Livia, widow of Augustus; the land belonged to an imperial estate (ousia) of hers and Germanicus. 'Apolysimos' denotes a status of exemption, probably from compulsory services, linked to estate workers.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.