Petition concerning crop damage and a guarantor for 30 artabas of wheat TM 219337HerakleopolitesEnde III - 1. Hälfte II v.Chr.

A petition from the Herakleopolite nome concerning damage to crops, apparently caused by grazing. The petitioner, forced to provide the granary keeper as guarantor for 30 artabas of wheat claimed by one Ptolemaios, asks the official to have Ptolemaios sent for judgment and to stop collection until then. The official's instructions to the epistatai Patroklos and Nikanor are noted on the back.

In English machine translation

The verb rendered 'grazed down' (katanemein) suggests the dispute concerns crops eaten by the petitioner's animals; he argues he damaged no more than a quarter. The name of the granary keeper is read as Onosis in the edition; its form is uncertain.

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