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Petition to the epistrategos about shares in a jointly owned house TM 16580Oxyrhynchos

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Petition from the old and childless Theomnestos son of Horos of Psinemouthis to the epistrategos Subatianus Aquila, complaining that his nephew and niece are depriving him of his larger share in a jointly owned house with vacant plots, and asking for a judge to be appointed. The back records the docket and the epistrategos' reply assigning a judge.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Subatianus Aquila, the most excellent epistrategos, from Theomnestos son of Horos, of those from Psinemouthis. I own a house held in common and undivided, together with vacant plots, with my nephews Petemounis son of Pisais and Taesis daughter of Sansnos, of which the greater shares belong to me. Since, then, they take advantage of me [...] squeezing me out of the shares that belong to me, an old man and childless because my sons have died, I ask you, lord, [to grant me] a judge [...] [verso] Year 9, Pharmouthi 19. Being in dispute with certain persons about shares of a house and vacant plots, he asks for a judge and an accountant (logothetes). You have as judge Panes or Philai[...] [...]

Subatianus Aquila was epistrategos around the turn of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, so year 9 is probably of Septimius Severus (AD 201). The logothetes here is an official charged with assessing accounts or shares in the dispute.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to an Epistrategus). 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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p.oxy.34.2708

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