Petition to a Strategos
Petition to Apollonios alias Ptolemaios, strategos of the Herakleidou meris, by a certain Psenamounis, who reports the loss of a mare
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Petition to the strategos about a lost mare TM 12023Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMarch 26, 187 or 188 or 189 A.D.
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A petition from Psenamounis son of Pakysis, a vinedresser of Karanis, to Apollonios alias Ptolemaios, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. He reports that his wheat-coloured mare disappeared at night while being led to water and asks that his petition be registered so that his rights are preserved if she is found.
In English machine translation
To Apollonios alias Ptolemaios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Psenamounis son of Pakysis, from the village of Karanis.
In the night before the 22nd of the present month Phamenoth, my mare, wheat-coloured in colour, while being led to water, disappeared, which I immediately made known to the public officials of the village. Since up to now she has not yet turned up, I submit and ask that the petition be placed on record, so that if she is found I may retain my claim.
I, Psenamounis, vinedresser, have submitted it.
Year 2[…] of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Phamenoth 30.
The regnal year number of Commodus is damaged, so the exact year is uncertain. The 'public officials' (demosioi) were village officers to whom losses were first reported.
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 a 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.
p.mich.9.527
Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῷ καὶ Πτολεμαίῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Ψεναμούνεως Πακύσεως ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος. νυκτὶ τῇ εἰς τὴν κβ τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Φαμενὼθ ἵππος μου θήλεια σιτόχρωμος τὸ χρῶμα ἀγομένη πρὸς ποτισμὸν ἀφανὴς ἐγένετο, ὅπερ εὐθέως φανερὸν ἐποίησα τοῖς τῆς κώμης δημοσ…