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Petition of the villagers of Koma about the ferryman Patouontis TM 18641Koma (Herakleopolites)15 v.Chr. - 14 n.Chr.

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A petition to Herakleides, strategos of the Herakleopolite nome, from Kastor, gymnasiarch of the village of Koma, together with the settlers and farmers of the village. They explain that since year 16 of Augustus breaches in the public embankment have made a ferry necessary for their farm work, and complain that a certain Apollos came with a soldier, quartered himself in the house of the ferryman Patouontis and carried off two new garments though nothing was owed.

In English machine translation

To Herakleides, strategos and in charge of the revenues, from Kastor, gymnasiarch of Koma, and the other katoikoi in the village, and the other farmers and the royal farmers living in the village. Since year 16 of Caesar, when the public embankment that runs through the village was […], because of the breaches that have occurred in it there is a ferry in the village for us, by means of which we carry out the summer work and all the other sowing, being ferried across in it. While the ferryman Patouontis pays to the public treasury for this 300 drachmas of silver net […] of the accounts, Apollos son of (?) […]tagenes, having come to the village with a soldier, took up quarters in his house, and seized and carried off two new garments which he found there, although he owed nothing; and he himself, being harassed by the tax-farmers, brought a report to us […] […]

Katoikoi were military settlers holding cleruchic land; a diazoma was a dyke or embankment dividing basins of irrigated land. Year 16 of Caesar (Augustus) is 15/14 BC.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an den Strategen). 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 · 15 v.Chr. - 14 n.Chr. · Koma (Herakleopolites)

Ἡρακλείδηι στρατηγῶι καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν προσόδων παρὰ Κάστορος γυμνασιάρχου Κόμα καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ἐν τῆι κώμηι κατοίκων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων γεωργῶν καὶ τῶν βασιλικῶν γεωργῶν τῶν ἐν τῆι κώμηι κατοικούντων. ἔτι ἀπὸ τοῦ ιϛ ἔτους Καίσαρος τοῦ κατὰ τὴν κώμην ἀγομένου δημοσίου διαζώματος το……, διὰ…