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Petition of three brothers about their missing brother's wheat debt TM 12020Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptSeptember 14, 98 A.D.

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Petition by three brothers from Karanis to the strategos Claudius Areios. They paid 15 artabas of wheat to the Kamelian estate on behalf of their vanished younger brother Petesouchos and ask that the village hegoumenos search for him so he can repay what he owes them. Dated 14 September AD 98.

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To Claudius Areios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Petesouchos and Petsiris and Pnepheros, all three sons of Petheus, from the village of Karanis. We have paid on behalf of our brother Petesouchos the younger, to the account of the Kamelian estate, 15 artabas of wheat, because he has disappeared. Therefore we ask you to instruct the hegoumenos of Karanis to make a search for him, so that he may be made to answer for what he owes us, that we may be benefited. Petesouchos, about 65 years old, scar on the second finger of the left hand. Petsiris, about 60 years old, scar on the little finger of the left hand. Pnepheros, about 46 years old, scar on the third finger of the left hand. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Augustus, month Sebastos 17.

The Kamelian estate (ousia) was an imperial estate whose land was leased to villagers. Sebastos was the honorific name for the month Thoth; the hegoumenos was a village official.

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Petition to a Strategos

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 5549 · September 14, 98 A.D. · Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Petition to the strategos Claudius Areios by three brothers, Petesouchos, Petsiris and Pnepheros, requesting that the hegoumenos of Karanis be ordered to search for their missing brother and joint cultivator of some rented land, Petesouchos the younger, in order that this Petesou…

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 14. Sept. 98 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

Κλαυδίωι Ἀρείωι στρατηγῶι Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Πετεσούχου καὶ Πετσίρεως καὶ Πνεφερῶτος τῶν τριῶν Πεθέως τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος. τυγχάνομεν ἀποδεδωκότες ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἡμῶν Πετεσούχου νεωτέρου εἰς τὸν τῆς Καμηλιανῆς οὐσίας λόγον πυροῦ ἀρτάβας δεκαπέντε διὰ τὸ ἀφαν…