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Petition of Menandros against the cleruch Dionysodoros over a house plot TM 1601unbekanntMitte III v.Chr.

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A petition to King Ptolemy from Menandros, a man of the Epigone, complaining that the cleruch Dionysodoros twice drove him by force out of houses he had built on a deserted plot assigned to him by the billeting officer Petosiris. Dionysodoros claimed to hold the whole plot from Zenon; Menandros asks the king to hear his case.

In English machine translation

To King Ptolemy, greeting, from Menandros of the Epigone. I am wronged by Dionysodoros, one of the cleruchs. For having requested a deserted plot from Petosiris the billeting officer, I built myself a house on it. Dionysodoros came to me and demanded 2 drachmas a year as rent; while I was in the country with Ambilaos […] the allotment for him, he built all around my house, and, despising my lack of support, he drives me out with blows. When I stopped (?), having no one to stand by me, I built myself another house, and he himself drives me out of this one too with blows, saying that he holds the whole plot from Zenon, [going] (?) to court against me before Nestos. I beg you therefore, if it please you, to hear my case, so that I may not be oppressed by Dionysodoros. Farewell.

The text belongs to the Zenon archive, likely from Philadelphia in the Fayum. 'Epigone' denotes descendants of military settlers, and the 'stathmodotes' allocated billets to soldiers.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr.

βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Μένανδρος τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Διονυσοδώρου τῶν κληρούχων. αἰτησαμένου γάρ μου τόπον ἔρημον Πετοσῖριν τὸν σταθμοδότην κατωικοδόμησα ἐμαυτῶι οἰκίαν. προσελθόντος δέ μοι καὶ ἀξιώσαντος Διονυσοδώρου ἀντὶ ἐνοικίου δραχμὰς β εἰς ἐνιαυτόν, ἄχρι ἤμην ἐν…