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Petition concerning the plundering of a dead wife's sealed property TM 19624Hermopolis (?)113 - 120

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A petition to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia, from Phmoulilous son of Seias. He complains that after his sick wife Kollauthis had her belongings sealed in her house and then died in the metropolis, certain persons broke the seals and carried off the goods, and he reports the investigation by the strategos' secretary Hermaios.

In English machine translation

To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia, from Phmoulilous son of Seias, of those from the Heptakomia. Kollauthis daughter of Pcheris, my wife, having fallen ill, sent down on the […] of the month Pachon everything that she wished [to leave in] her own house, which is in the village of […], (and) Kollauthis (had it) sealed, in which many […] in another house of her nurse in […] by Mersis son of Peteesis and Orsenouphis son of Pachompsais, brother of Senbesis, [her] mother. [And when she] died on the 23rd in the metropolis, [so-and-so] […] taking as accomplices those in the house of Kollauthis […] neither the mourning nor having shaved herself […] they broke the seals with Pachom[…] […] Senpse[…] and Pachoumios […] […] carried off. [So] having learned (of it) […] to Hermaios your secretary […] the plundering, who sent […] in the matter, who, having come into [the village by night] with lamps, the aforementioned […] carried off, they left none of these […] to Hermaios, having admitted […] the house of Kollauthis […] by […]lios and of the […] master […] the aforementioned [who committed the] plundering […] being […] […] through Amoles […] […] […]

The petition is addressed to the strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia, though the archive is placed at Hermopolis with a query. Many restorations and the sequence of events in the damaged middle section are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eine Eingabe wegen Diebstahls). 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 · 113 - 120 · Hermopolis (?)

Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι Ἀπολλωνοπολίτουἑπτακωμίας παρὰ Φμουλιλοῦτος Σηιᾶ τῶν ἀπὸ ἑπτακωμίας. Κολλαῦθις Πχήριος γυνή μου νοσήσασα κατέπεμψετῆι[…]τοῦ Παχὼν μηνὸς πάντα ὅσα ἐβούλετο καταλιπεῖν εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν αὐτῆς οἰκίαν οὖσαν ἐν κώμῃ […]ἡ Κολλαῦθις ἐπισφραγισθῆναι, ἐν ᾗ πολλ[…] ἐν ἑτέρ…