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Memorandum to the Idios Logos about disputed vacant plots at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 23518Alexandria

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A memorandum addressed to the official in charge of the Idios Logos (special account) at Alexandria. The writer, who bought vacant plots at Soknopaiou Nesos from Chairemon, prophet of Souchos, complains that someone reported them to the royal scribe as ownerless in order to buy them, and asks that his arrival within the deadline set for the assize be recorded until his case is heard.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] undisputed […] to the […] dared to submit a report to Asklepiades, royal scribe, concerning vacant plots ⟦mine, concerning our vacant plots⟧ in Soknopaiou Nesos, wishing to buy them from the Idios Logos as being ownerless, […] although these were bought by me from Chairemon son of Herodes, prophet of Souchos the most great god, who also conveyed them to me by registered deed in year 41 ⟦being his paternal property from his father and⟧ in accordance with the title deeds that I hold ⟦maternal⟧, and which I also rebuilt on the old foundation. When the report was brought to you for the assize, you set a deadline to come down to Alexandria before your tribunal within the month of Epeiph. Having therefore come down within the deadline, I ask that my name be entered in the record, until, after you have heard the case, I may assert my title deeds and be released from the slanderous accusation, so that I may be benefited. Farewell. Year 1 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus […]

Year 41 of the purchase is presumably of Augustus (11/10 BC). Plots claimed as 'ownerless' could be sold by the state through the Idios Logos, which is why the accuser sought to buy them.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ὑπόμνημα an den ἐπίτροπος τοῦ ἰδίου λόγου mit der Bitte, die Anwesenheit des Gesuchstellers auf dem Konvent zur Kenntnis zu nehmen). 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 · Alexandria

[… ? lines lost …] […] ἀναμφισβητήτων τοῖς […]ηι ἐτόλμησενἐπιδοῦναι ἀναφορὰν Ἀσκληπιάδηι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ περὶ ψιλῶν τόπων ἐν τῇ Σοκνοπαίου Νήσωι, βουλόμενος ὠνήσασθαι αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου λόγου ὡς ὄντας ἀδεσπότους […]… τούτων δὲ ἠγορασμένων ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ παρὰ Χαιρήμονος Ἡρώιδου τοῦ …