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Beginning of a petition from Protarchos son of Protarchos to Sarapion, a police chief, complaining that his tenant farmer Harpaesis of Euhemeria in the Themistos division of the Arsinoite nome abandoned his field. The document dates to about AD 28-30.
The phrase about the tenant 'drawing on my credit' (ephelkomenos ten hypolepsin) is uncertain in meaning, perhaps that he carried off what was owed or damaged the petitioner's standing. The rest of the petition is lost.
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.
[r] Σαραπίωνι ἐπιστάτῃ φυλακιτῶν παρὰ Πρωτάρχου τοῦ Πρωτάρχου. Ἁρπαῆσις Νααραῦτος τοῦ Οὐήριος τῶν ἀπὸ Εὐημερείας τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος γενάμενός μου γεωργὸς ἐνκαταλιπὼν μου τὸν ἀγρὸν καὶ ἐφελκόμενός μου τὴν ὑπόληψιν [… ? lines lost …] [v] Εὐημερείας
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