Petition to the strategos giving notice of withdrawal from a lease TM 12472Philadelphia (Arsinoites)ca. 212

A petition to Theon also called Philosarapis, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, from Taesis of Philadelphia. After her husband, who had leased a share of a property (perhaps a pottery) at Tanis, died, she gives notice through an official servant to the landlord's guardian or agent that she is withdrawing from the lease. It dates to about AD 212.

In English machine translation

The word kerameion probably means a pottery workshop here. The document uses the diastole procedure, an official notification served through the strategos's assistants.

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 (Pachtkündigung)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.