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Petition of a lessee of an oil-press from the estate of Narkissos TM 15152Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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Petition from Herieus son of Satabous of Soknopaiou Nesos to Philoxenos, strategos of the Themistos division of the Arsinoite nome. He leased an oil-press from the former estate of Narkissos, now imperial property, from year 13 of Claudius, equipped and repaired it at his own cost, and for two years has paid rent though unable to use it; he asks that the estate administrators stop pressing him for rent.

In English machine translation

To Philoxenos, former kosmetes, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Themistos, from Herieus son of Satabous, of those from Soknopaiou Nesos. Already from year 13 of the deified Claudius I leased an oil-press from the estate formerly of Narkissos at a rent of 200 drachmas and 3 choes of oil. But since then, as the administrators have not supplied for the machinery either the measuring-boxes (?) or the other things that were needed, I myself was compelled to buy them at my own expense and fit it out, and likewise the mill and mortars and the other necessary things, again at my own expense, without their paying any attention to me. Since, then, the oil-press itself has also collapsed (?) and I was compelled to put in beams and supports, and for two years I have been compelled, while out of the oil-press, to pay the rents from my own resources, I ask, being no longer able to bear the losses, that you compel the administrators to leave me unmolested concerning the rents.

Narkissos was probably Claudius' freedman, whose confiscated estate passed to the imperial domain (ousia); the reference to the deified Claudius places the text in Nero's reign or soon after. The verb translated 'collapsed' (synechytrothe) is rare and its exact sense uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zur Patrimonialverwaltung). 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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Φιλοξένωι κοσμητεύσαντι στρατηγῶι Ἀρσινοΐτου Θεμίστου μερίδος παρὰ Ἑριέως τοῦ Σαταβοῦτος τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Σοκνεπαίου Νήσου. ἐμισθωσάμην ἔτι ἀπὸ τοῦ ιγ ἔτους θεοῦ Κλαυδίου ἐκ τῆς πρότερον Ναρκίσσου οὐσίας ἐλαιουργῖον ἐπὶ φόρωι δραχμῶν σ καὶ ἐλαίου χόεσι τρισί . ἔκτοτε δὲ τῶν προεστώτων…