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Petition about a drunken night-time break-in demanding wine TM 1571Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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Fragmentary end of a petition from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, in which the writer complains that a man came at night with drunken companions, demanded wine, and forced the door with knives and staves until the writer escaped onto the roof shouting. The petitioner asks the official to have the offender sent for so that justice may be done.

In English machine translation

[…] […] and in year 2 […] on the night of the 7th to the 8th [he came with] some drunken men […] and knocked on [the] door, ordering 'Open, so that we may drink.' When I said to him, 'I have no wine, and I do not open at night,' he told me to open, and when another was urging me on, I was about to open; he prised open the door with knives and staves. But when I leapt up onto the roof shouting, he thereupon went away. I ask you therefore to write to the proper official to send him to you, so that, if what I write is true, I may obtain justice. Farewell.

The beginning, including the names of petitioner and addressee, is lost. The passage 'when another was urging me on, I was about to open' is uncertain in sense; the petitioner may have been a wine seller, but this is an inference.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.lond.7.2009

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

[… ? lines lost …] …[…]…[…] καὶ ἐν τῶι β ἔτει […] τῆι ζ εἰς τὴν η ἦλθεν μετά μεθυόντων[…] τινων καὶ ἔκρουσεν τὴν θύραν κελεύων ἄνοιξονἵνα πίωμεν. ἐμοῦ δὲ προσφώνήσαντος αὐτῶι οὐκ ἔχω οἶνον οὐδὲ ἀνοίγω νύκτα, ἔλεγέν μοι ἀνοῖξαι, καὶ ἄλλου προπεμπομένου προσεῖχον ἀνοῖξαι, ἐξεμόχλευ…