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Petition to the strategos about a stolen piglet at Theadelphia TM 12470Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)12. Febr. 150

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A petition from Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, a resident of the nome capital, to Diogenes, strategos of two divisions of the Arsinoite nome, reporting the theft of a female piglet at Theadelphia by an unknown person and asking for an investigation. It is dated 12 February 150 AD, the same day as the theft.

In English machine translation

To Diogenes, strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome, from Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, one of those from the metropolis. On the 18th of the present month Mecheir someone stole from me in the village of Theadelphia a female piglet; not knowing who it is, I ask that you shut (him) up and make the appropriate investigation, so that I may have been benefited by you. Year 13 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus the lord, Mecheir 18.

The petitioner asks the strategos to 'shut up' (synkleisai) the unknown thief, a standard formula for arrest even though the culprit is unidentified. 'Those from the metropolis' designates privileged residents of the nome capital.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bittschrift an einen 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 · 12. Febr. 150 · Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)

Διογένει στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδων παρὰ Πτολεμαίου Πτολεμαίου τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως. τῇ ιη τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Μεχεὶρ ἔκλεψέν μου ἐν κώμῃ Θεαδελφείᾳ χοιρίδιον θηλικὸν ὃν ἀγνοῶν τίς ἐστιν ἀξιῶ συγκλεῖσαι καὶ ποιῆσαι τὴν καθήκουσαν ἀναζήτησιν ἵνʼ ὦ ὑπὸ σοῦ ἐυ…