Beginning of a petition by a cleruch acting as guardian of an orphan TM 2523Arsinoitesca. 142 v.Chr.

Beginning of a petition addressed to Pankrates, a high-ranking official, by Ptolemaios, a Macedonian cleruch holding 80 arouras, acting as guardian of the orphan son of Olympiodoros, concerning a 100-aroura allotment near Oxyrhyncha in the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome. It appears to concern an assessment of a levy, but the text breaks off. It dates to about 142 BC.

In English machine translation

Archisomatophylax ('chief bodyguard') was by this period an honorific court rank. The epigraphe was a levy assessed on cleruchic land; much of the wording about it is restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anfang 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.