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Draft petition concerning the release of the kleros of Menoites TM 2521Arsinoites13. Juli 142 v.Chr.

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Draft of a petition from a certain Ptolemaios to an official concerning an order to the collector Antiochos to release the remainder of the allotment (kleros) of Menoites after the sums due to the royal treasury had been withheld. The petitioner complains of obstruction and vouches for the trustworthiness of Antiochos. Written in the Arsinoite nome in 142 BC.

In English machine translation

From Ptolemaios. As you had ordered to write to Antiochos the collector (logeutes), that, keeping back what is due to the royal treasury, he should release the rest of the kleros of Menoites, and Ptolemaios the secretary (epistolographos) [...] added, as is proper, the others [...] having ordered beforehand [...] he hinders [...] to be separated (?) for Antinochos. I ask that not [...] I have been ordered [...] to Antinochos without excuse the official instruction, and it is already almost clear to you that he is also more trustworthy than the collectors. Farewell. Year 28, Epeiph 20.

The collector's name appears both as Antiochos and Antinochos, apparently the same man. A kleros was a plot of land allotted to a soldier-settler.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Entwurf einer Eingabe). 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 · 13. Juli 142 v.Chr. · Arsinoites

παρὰ Πτολεμαίου σοῦ συντάξαντος γράψαι Ἀντιόχωι τῶι λογευτῇ, ὑπολιπόμενον τὰ εἰς τὸ βασιλικὸν καθήκοντα, τοῦ Μενοίτου κλήρου τὰ λοιπὰ προέσθαι, Πτολεμαῖος δὲ ὁ ἐπιστολογράφος ιν προσέθηκεν, ὡς καθήκει, τῶν ἄλλων … δὴ προκελευσαμένων …[…]…με ἐμποδίζει δ…[…]δεως… χωρισθῆναι τῶι Ἀντ…