One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1450
Fragment of a petition complaining of wrongs by Dionysios TM 1450Philadelphia254 - 251 BC
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Fragment of a petition from the Zenon archive in which the petitioners complain that they are being wronged by a certain Dionysios, apparently in a matter involving wages and sheep and someone being put in prison. They ask the addressee to write to Philiskos about him. Written at Philadelphia in the Fayum, 254-251 BC.
In English machine translation
[…] we are being wronged by Dionysios […] saying (?) wages […] sheep […] us […] into the prison […] royal, on condition that when […] We therefore ask you […] to write to Philiskos […] him.
The left side of every line is lost, so the connection between the wages, the sheep and the prison is unclear. The addressee is presumably Zenon, to whom much of this archive was written.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of petition). 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.cair.zen.5.59826
[…]ἀδικούμεθα ὑπὸ Διονυσίου […]φάμενος ὀψώνιον […]πρόβατα ἡμᾶς […]εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον […]βασιλικὸν ἐφʼ ὧι ὅταν […] δεόμεθα οὖν σου […] γράψαι Φιλίσκωι […]αὐτόν.