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Petition to the strategos about an assault in a vineyard at Talei TM 15168Either Talei or Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary 4, 48 A.D.

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Petition from Petsiris son of Phoulemis of Talei to the strategos Apollonios, complaining that Patynion son of Herakleides and his son drove mules through the vegetables in his leased vineyard and, when he objected, beat him so badly that he is bedridden and in danger of death. He asks that the village police chief send the accused to the strategos for trial; it is dated January AD 48 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

To Apollonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Petsiris son of Phoulemis, of those from Talei. On the 5th of Tybi of the present 8th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, while I was working in the vineyard near Tali which I have leased from Ischyrion son of Ptolemaios, I caught in the act Patynion son of Herakleides and his son […] driving mules […] among the vegetables sown in between; and when I remonstrated with them, they subjected me to no ordinary outrage, and moreover, as a result, they gave me unsparingly a full measure of blows on whatever parts of my body they happened to hit, and they fell upon me, striking my side with their fists, so that I am now bedridden and in danger of my life. Therefore I ask you to write to the archephodos of Talei to send the accused to you for the coming prosecution. Farewell. Year 8 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Tybi 9. Petsiris, about 45 years old, bald at the forehead, a scar at the outer end of the left eyebrow by the eyelid. [verso] Memorandum of Petsiris of Talei.

The archephodos was the village chief of police. APIS gives the date as 4 January and the place as Talei or Tebtynis.

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Petition to a Strategos

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 660 · January 4, 48 A.D. · Either Talei or Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Petition, addressed to Apollonios, strategos of the division of Polemon, by Petsiris, son of Phoulemis, who complains that while he was working in his vineyard he caught Patynion, son of Herakleides and his son driving mules through the vegetables that he had sown between his vin…

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5. Jan. 48 · Talei (Arsinoites)

[r] Ἀπολλωνίῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοείτου παρὰ Πετσίριος τοῦ Φουλήμιος τῶν ἀπὸ Ταλεὶ τῇ ε τοῦ Τῦβι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος η ἔτους Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος. ἐμοῦ ὄντος ἐργαζομένου ἐν ᾧ μεμίσθωμαι παρὰ Ἰσχυρίωνος τοῦ Πτολεμαίου περὶ Ταλὶ ἀμπελῶνι, εὗρον ἐπʼ αὐτοφ…