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Petition to the epistrategos about wrongful land registration at Krekis TM 20624Ibion Nemna (Apollonopolites, Ägypten) oder Krekis (Antaiopolites, Ägypten)

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Petition to the epistrategos Julius Julianus from Senphibis, a woman of Ibion Nemna acting with her son Psais as guardian, complaining that the village scribe's secretary at Krekis had registered her for one aroura more than the 5 1/4 arouras she bought. She asks that the strategos of the Antaiopolite nome be ordered to correct the registration according to her deeds.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Julius Julianus, the most excellent epistrategos, from Senphibis daughter of Thortaios, with her guardian, her son Psais, elder, son of Lemos, from the village of Ibion Nemna in the Lower Apollonopolite district. I bought, lord, a long time ago from Apollonios and Didymos, both sons of Origenes, from Lykopolis, 5 1/4 arouras of grain land in the holding called Diagraphe in the fields of the village of Krekis in the Antaiopolite nome. But a certain Artemidoros, secretary of the village scribe of Krekis, I do not know how, has registered me for more than my property by one whole aroura, and in addition year by year, and from this he causes me no small loss. Since therefore the man's compulsion is pressing upon me and I am in danger of abandoning my own home, I take refuge with you, the lord and helper of all, and ask, if it seems good to you, to order the strategos of the nome to see to it that the proper registration is made of the arouras I hold according to the title deeds I possess, and that I not be wrongly registered by the village scribe; for indeed last year too, in addition to these, he wrongly registered other things against me; so that I may be helped. […] I, Senphibis daughter of Thortaios, with my guardian Psais, elder, son of Lamos, have submitted this. [verso] Into the hands (?) of the Antaiopolite (strategos). She complains about the secretary of the village scribe concerning a wrongful registration; she asks that the proper registration be made. Nothing being withheld (?).

The guardian's father is spelled Lemos in the opening and Lamos in the subscription. The verso docket summarizes the petition for forwarding to the Antaiopolite strategos; its last line is of uncertain sense.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to the Epistrategus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.3.488

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ibion Nemna (Apollonopolites, Ägypten) oder Krekis (Antaiopolites, Ägypten)

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