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A petition from Aurelius Aretion, manager of a confiscated estate now belonging to the imperial treasury, to the strategos Aurelius Besarion. He complains that the shipbuilder Patalas cut down and carried off two large acacia trees from an imperial vineyard plot, and asks that Patalas be summoned and an official sent to inspect the damage. It dates to the reign of Aurelian, AD 272-275, at Memphis.
The estate had belonged to a former hypomnematographos (a high Alexandrian official) and was confiscated by the imperial treasury. Acacia wood was valued for shipbuilding, which explains the culprit's trade.
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.
Αὐρήλιος Ἀρητίων ἀπὸ τῆς Μεμφιτῶν πόλεως[…] προνοητὴς οὐσίας πρότερον Ἀνουβᾶ γενομένου ὑπομνηματογράφου, νυνὶ δὲ τοῦ ἱερωτάτου ταμιείου Αὐρηλίῳ Βησαρίωνι στρατηγῷ τοῦ νομοῦ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. Παταλᾶς ναυπηγὸς χθὲς ἀλόγως γενόμενος εἰς ἀμπελικὸν χωρίον καλούμενον Ἐλαιῶνα τοῦ κυρί…
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