Petition [218-225 AD]
Petition to the strategos from Claudia Isidora who complains about the unauthorized cutting of mature sycamore trees by one Aurelia Sarapous and her partner Eirenaios, who had contracted to cut down other young plants
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 22271
Petition about sycamores cut down without authorization near Nemera TM 22271Oxyrhynchites218 CE – 225 CE
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A petition to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, Aurelius Harpokration, from the secretary of Claudia Isidora also called Apia. He complains that Aurelia Sarapous and her partner Eirenaios, who had bought plants on Isidora's estate near Nemera, cut down not only those plants but also nine mature sycamores around the irrigation wheel, and asks that the damage be officially recorded.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Harpokration, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Aurelius […], secretary of Claudia Isidora also called Apia, and however she is styled.
Aurelia Sarapous, daughter of Didymos son of Petosorapis, […] having given (?) [a bid] for the purchase of plants standing in the allotment of the most respectable (lady) called Tmo near Nemera, besides the sycamores around the irrigation wheel, and having taken to herself as partner Eirenaios […], they cut down not only the plants that had been ratified (to them), but also the very sycamores around the irrigation wheel, full-grown, 9 in number. So that the kind of the sycamores improperly cut may be made known, in order that the most respectable lady may retain her claim against them concerning the […], I necessarily submit this petition, asking you to send […]
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The 'kykleuterion' is a water-lifting wheel (saqiya) used for irrigation. The end of the petition, with the actual request, is lost.
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 Strategos). 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.col.10.276
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἁρποκρατίωνι στρατηγῷὈξυρυνχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου[…]…[…]α… ιωνος γραμματέως Κλαυδίας Ἰσιδώρας τῆς καὶ Ἀπίας καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει. Αὐρηλία Σαραποῦς Διδύμου τοῦ Πετοσοράπιος …ει… δοῦσα εἰς ὠνὴν φυτῶν ὄντων ἐν κλήρῳ τῆς εὐσχήμονος Τμω λεγομένῳ περὶ Νεμέρων μετὰ τὰς περὶ τὸ κυκλευτ…