Petition to the king about forcible detention and a written bond TM 219332unbekanntIII v.Chr.

A fragmentary petition to King Ptolemy from an unnamed person who complains of being wronged, forcibly taken to a tower, and involved in a dispute over a child and 74 drachmas. The petitioner asks the king to have the strategos hear the case against a certain Protarchos and to force the return of a written undertaking. It dates to the 3rd century BC.

In English machine translation

Much of the standard petition wording, including the address and the request to the strategos, is restored by the editor. The oikonomos was a royal financial official; the 'tower' was likely a fortified building used for detention.

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 König). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.