Fragment of Petition
Fragment of a petition reporting a theft of dates and for violence
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14409
Petition about theft of dates and assault in an olive orchard at Karanis TM 14409probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egyptca. 180-210 A.D.
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Fragment of a petition from Karanis in the Fayum, in which the writer complains that on visiting his olive orchard in the plain of Psenarpsenesis he caught Satabous son of Satabous and his son cutting the dates from his palms. When he tried to seize the thief, the man attacked him, apparently with a sickle, intending to kill him. The petition probably dates to about AD 180-210.
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[...] the olive orchard belonging to me near the plain of Psenarpsenesis of the village of Karanis, I found Satabous son of Satabous, called the son of Kinkiol, together with his son, cutting the fruit of the date palms in it. When I wished to seize him, with the sickle (?) that he had, wanting to kill me, and my [...]
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The word for 'sickle' is largely restored. An 'elaionoparadeisos' is an olive orchard that also held other trees, here date palms.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition wegen Erntediebstahls und tätlichen Angrffs). 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.mchl.11
[… ? lines lost …] …[…] […]κ…ειο…μ…… τὸν ὑπάρχοντά μοι ἐλαιωνοπαράδεισον περὶ πεδίον Ψεναρψενῆσιν κώμης Καρανίδος, εὗρον Σαταβοῦν Σαταβοῦτος ἐπικαλούμενον τὸν τοῦ Κινκιῶλ σῦν τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ κόπτοντα καρπὸν τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ φοινίκων. ὡς δὴ ἐβουλήθην ἐπιλαβέσθαι αὐτοῦ, ᾧ εἶχεν δρεπάνῳ ἐμὲ…