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Petition of a priest of Soknopaios about assault and theft of fruit TM 11824Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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Petition to the strategos from Panephremmis, a priest of the god Soknopaios, complaining that Papais, a village weaver, forcibly harvested his fig orchard in year 42 of Augustus, beat him, broke his left hand and stole his clothes and tools. He asks that the accused be brought before the official.

In English machine translation

To Ko[…], strategos, from Panephremmis son of Teses, priest of Soknopaios the very great god. On the 28th of Mesore of the 42nd year of Caesar, Papais son of Papais, weaver, one of those from the village, came upon the fig orchard (?) that I have and violently harvested as much as he wished. And when I remonstrated with him, he gave me many blows and broke my left hand with a helmet (?), and carried off my tunic and belt and a mattock (?) and an axe, and from that time until now I have been bedridden. And he has caused me no small damage, having wronged me also in the public land that I farm. I ask therefore that the accused be brought before you […]

Synkeraton is apparently a plot of figs and carob trees; 'kranos' (helmet) may stand for a cornel-wood stick, and 'ame' is a digging tool. The date given is the incident date in the text; the petition itself was written shortly after.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an den Strategen). 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 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

[1] Κο[…]…ωι στρατηγῶι παρὰ Πανεφρέμμιος τοῦ Τεσήους ἱερέως Σοκνοπαίου θεοῦ μεγίστου. Τῆι κη τοῦ Μεσορὴ τοῦ μβ ἔτους Καίσαρος Παπάις Παπάιτος γέρδιος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς κώμης ἐπελθὼν ἐφʼ ὃ ἔχω συκήρατον ἐξετρύγησεν βιαίως ὅσον ἠβούλετο. πρὸς ὃν καὶ λογοποιούμενος ἔδωκέν μοι πληγὰς πλείο…