Petition to the strategus
Complaint and petition to the strategos to apprehend and punish some herdsmen who have let their flocks graze on the estate of Antonia.
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Petition to the strategos about sheep damaging wheat on Antonia's estate TM 12569Euhemeria, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober 28/November 11, 22 A.D.
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A petition to the strategos Dionysodoros from Dionysios, manager of an estate of Antonia (daughter of Drusus), reporting that shepherds from Philadelpheia let their sheep graze on and damage a farmer's wheat, a loss of 10 artabas. He asks that the local epistates bring the accused before the strategos. It dates to AD 22 in the Arsinoite nome, from Euhemeria.
In English machine translation
To Dionysodoros, strategos of the Arsinoite nome,
from Dionysios, the manager of the estate of Antonia, daughter of Drusus, in the hamlet of […]chos.
It has been reported to me by Chairemon son of Sarapion, farmer […], that on the 1st day of the month Neos Sebastos of the ninth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, Te… son of Horos, thiaouaretia (?), and Petesouchos son of Labatas and Psosneus, the sons of Oneios, shepherds of those from Philadelpheia, let loose the sheep they have onto the wheat stacks (?) that he has in the allotment of Anoubeion, and grazed them down and damaged them to the amount of 10 artabas of wheat. I ask that it be written to the epistates of Philadelpheia to bring the accused before you for the proper punishment quickly, without prejudice to me regarding the matters on which I previously submitted other memoranda.
Farewell.
On the 16th. Send out.
Antonia daughter of Drusus is Antonia Minor, mother of Claudius, who owned estates in Egypt. The word 'thiaouaretia' is obscure, and 'thekai' (here 'wheat stacks') is uncertain; the closing 'On the 16th. Send out' is the official's endorsement.
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.
Petition to the Strategus
One of a large group of petitions from Euhemereia, addressed to the strategus or the epistates of the phulakitai.
p.oslo.3.123
Διονυσοδώρωι στρατηγῶι Ἀρσινοίτου παρὰ Διονυσίου τοῦ προεστῶτος τῆς ἐν τῶι […]…χου ἐποικίωι οὐσίας Ἀντωνίας Δρούσου. προσέπεσέν μοι παρὰ Χαιρήμονος τοῦ Σαραπίωνος γεωργοῦ […]… τῆι α ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ Νέου Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς τοῦ ἐνάτου ἔτους Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ ἐπαφηκέναι Τη… Ὥρου θιαο…