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Petition to the exactor about trespass on land near Thynis, quoting a petition to the governor TM 17712Hermopolis

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Petition from Aurelius Adelphios of the Hermopolite area to the exactor, quoting his earlier petition to the governor Valerius Victorinianus about Anysios, Phibion and six partners from Prere who tried to trespass on his sown land near Thynis and Sarapieion. The governor's subscription delegated the case to the exactor, and Adelphios asks that the opponents be summoned to arbitration.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] [Of the petition which I submitted concerning certain evildoers who attempted] to trespass on our land, and of the subscription which I obtained ordering you, the most excellent exactor, to judge between us and to give the appropriate fair settlement (?), as it contains, having inserted it, I submit to you this document, asking that the aforementioned be notified of these very things, so that they may know and appear for the arbitration, or else oppose it until judgment. It is as follows: To Valerius Victorinianus, the most distinguished governor, from Adelphios son of Adelphios. I have land, my lord governor, in the fields of the village of Thynis and Sarapieion. I have tended it and committed it to sowing. Since therefore Anysios and Phibion and 6 partners from the village of Prere attempted to trespass on the land, of which by all the laws I […] and hold possession, I beg your excellency to order whomever you approve to stop the abuse being done against me. Farewell. In the consulship of our lords Licinius Augustus for the 6th time and Licinius the most illustrious Caesar for the 2nd time, 8th day before the Kalends of March. The exactor will judge between you and deliver the appropriate settlement. Sheet 61, roll 1. Up to this point. Farewell. In the aforementioned consulship […] I, Aurelius Adelphios, [have submitted.] […] [… lines lost …]

The consular date (Licinius Augustus VI and Licinius Caesar II) corresponds to AD 321; the date given here is calculated from the text. The exactor was a fiscal official of the nome, here acting as delegated judge.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bittschrift an den Exaktor). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

cpr.17A.15

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

[… ? lines lost …] ὧν ἐπέδωκα λιβέλλων περί τινων κακούργων ἐπιχειρησάντων ἐπιβῆναι γῇ ἡμετέρᾳ καὶ ἧς ἔτυχον ὑπογραφῆς τῆς προσταττούσης σοι τῷ πάντα ἀρίστῳ ἐξάκτορι μεταξὺ ἡμῶν διαλήμψεσθαι καὶ τὸν προσήκοντα ὅρον δώσειν ἴσον ὡς περιέχει ἐντάξας, ἐπιδίδωμί σοι τάδε τὰ βιβλία ἀξι…