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Petition to the strategos about obstruction of irrigation at Philadelphia TM 11902Philadelphia (Arsinoites)39 - 40

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Petition from Harpaesis son of Dikranes, a cultivator of 100 arouras of royal land at Philadelphia, to the strategos Gaius Iulius Asklas. He complains that Sambas and his associates, with a crowd of about 50 men, stopped him irrigating his land and diverted the water to Sambas's neighbouring allotment, and asks that they be brought before the strategos, AD 39/40.

In English machine translation

To Gaius Iulius Asklas, high priest of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, exegetes and strategos, from Harpaesis son of Dikranes, of those from Philadelphia, cultivator of 100 arouras of royal land. In the present 4th year of Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, having done much irrigating and water-guarding, I wished to irrigate the aforementioned arouras so that no shortfalls might follow, for which I measure to the public account 820 artabas of wheat, but I was prevented by Sambas son of […] and those with him, in the presence of an assembly numbering 50 men, he having taken up […] men […] the water […] into his own allotment which neighbours mine, as stated above. Since therefore no small damage is befalling me, I ask that they be brought before you for the appropriate proceedings and, if it seems right, that […] to guard the water until I have irrigated. […]

The 4th year of Gaius (Caligula) corresponds to AD 39/40. The phrase about the 'assembly' (synodos) of 50 men is partly restored and its exact sense is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to the Strategus). 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 · 39 - 40 · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Γαίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ ἀρχιερεῖ Γαίῳ Ἰουλίῳ Ἀσκλᾷ ἐξηγητῇ καὶ στρατηγῶι παρὰ Ἁρπαήσιος τοῦ Δικράνους τῶν ἀπὸ Φιλαδελφείας γεωργοῦ βασιλικῆς γῆς ἀρουρῶν ρ. τῷ ἐνεστῶτι δ ἔτει Γαίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ πολλὰ ποτίσας καὶ ὑδροφυλακήσας ἤθελον ποτίσαι τὰς προκιμέν…