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Petition of public farmers of Ibion Nebna about attacks by men from Hypsele TM 19470Apollonopolites Heptakomias27. März - 25. Apr. 117

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Petition from a group of public farmers of the village of Ibion Nebna to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia nome, in spring AD 117. They complain that people from Hypsele, who crossed over the river, slaughtered (animals?) and burned their farming tools on leased public island land, and ask that the Lykopolite strategos be informed and that they be freed from liability.

In English machine translation

To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia nome, from […] and […] son of Onnophris and N[…] son of Inaros and Besis the elder […] and […], those from the village of […]. We leased in year […] from […] and Horigenes son of Didymos and […] from the public lands around Ibion Nebna, a village of this nome, […] arouras of […] islands registered around the same Ibion, at a fixed rent of […] artabas of wheat […] […] […] of Hypsele and other villages […] they slaughtered […] […] […] of the other farming tools they burned most […], having been ferried across by the people from Hypsele, and we do not have […] […] We ask that a copy of this memorandum be sent to the strategos of the Lykopolite nome, so that he may pass on to the aforementioned an order to take every care and forethought for our crops […], since we are giving up and renouncing all the expenses up to now […], because the aforementioned islands almost belong to the people of Hypsele and the others, so that we who still remain, and who cannot even provide our own necessary food, may be free of liability in every respect. Year 20 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Optimus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Parthicus, Pharmouthi […].

The 'islands' are river islands of newly formed land leased as public land. The petition dates to the time of the Jewish revolt, and the violence may relate to that unrest.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe von Staatsbauern an den Strategen Apollonios). 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 · 27. März - 25. Apr. 117 · Apollonopolites Heptakomias

Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶιἈπολλωνοπολίτου ἑπτακωμίας παρὰ τοῦ δεῖνα[…]καὶ τοῦ δεῖνα Ὀννώφριος καὶ Ν…[…] Ἰναρῶτος καὶ Βήσιος πρεσβυτέρου […]καὶ τοῦ δεῖνα[…] τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης […] …[…]. ἐμισθωσάμεθα τῶι […]ἔτει[…]παρὰ[…] …λειοα…[…]… καὶ Ὠριγένους Διδύμου καὶ[…]… ἀπὸ τῶν περὶ Ἰβιῶνα Νεβνᾶ κώμ…