Fragmentary petition addressed to Aurelius Didymos, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, from Aurelius Lucretius, apparently concerning land, sowing and wheat in artabas involving a landowner of a village. It is dated in the 4th year of Severus Alexander, month Pauni (AD 225).
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Didymos, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Aurelius Lucretius […]
[…]enios, landowner […]
[…] of the aforementioned village […]
[…] for […] equal (?) […]
[…] of grain […] to […]
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[…] royal (?) […]
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[…] himself […]
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concerning which arouras the […]
brought in, artabas of wheat […]
with regard to which […]
[…] which they sowed […]
by the care of […]
and until the […]
the petitions […]
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[…] according to […]
that you send up […]
[…] through […]
Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius
Severus Alexander Pius Felix
Augustus, Pauni […]
Most lines preserve only their beginnings, so the exact grievance cannot be reconstructed; the request that the official 'send up' the matter suggests referral to a higher authority.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.