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Petition of Tauseiris to the epistrategos about rent on confiscated property TM 21093Ankyron (Herakleopolites)171 - 176

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Petition from Tauseiris, daughter of Pareitis, of the village of Ankyron, to the epistrategos Gaius Julius Lucullus. She owns a share of an old house whose larger part was confiscated by the treasury from Pareitis son of Horos, and complains that tax collectors demand from her 3,500 drachmas in rent for the confiscated part, which should be collected from the wealthy heirs. She threatens to abandon her own share if not relieved.

In English machine translation

To Gaius Julius Lucullus, the most excellent epistrategos, from Tauseiris daughter of Pareitis, of those from the village of Ankyron. Pareitis son of Horos, my lord, and all his property being with the treasury (fiscus), held by his heirs Pareitis and Antonios, I have, my lord, a share of an old house, of which the confiscated property also holds the greatest share; and although the rent of the confiscated share ought to be collected through the heirs, who are in great prosperity and are men of standing and hold everything, I do not know how the collectors demand from me, a woman without help, rent for the confiscated share in which I do not live, over a long time, amounting to 3,500 drachmas. Wherefore, being exhausted by this, I take refuge with you, asking that I not be harassed, or else I shall be forced to give up even my own share. Farewell.

The term analemptos refers to property taken over (confiscated) by the state treasury, whose rent was then collected by state agents (praktores).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an den Epistrategen C. Iulius Lucullus). 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 · 171 - 176 · Ankyron (Herakleopolites)

Γαίῳ Ἰουλίῳ Λουκούλλῳ τῷ κρατίστῳ ἐπιστρατήγῳ παρὰ Ταυσείριος Παρείτιος τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀγκυρῶν. Παρείτιος Ὤρου, κύριε, καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ πάντων παρὰ τῷ ταμείῳ ὄντων ἐπικρατουμένων ὑπὸ τῶν κληρονόμων αὐτοῦ Παρείτιος καὶ Ἀντωνίου μέρος ἔχω, κύριε, οἰκίας παλαιᾶς, ἧς καὶ ὁ ἀναλημπτὸς τὸ …