Application to the exegetes concerning a guardian, inheritance and slaves TM 26491Herakleopolites (?)Anfang III (?)

Fragment of an application, apparently a petition, that encloses a memorandum from Eudaimonis daughter of Ptolemaios to Ptolemaios also called Soterichos, priest and exegetes. It concerns an inheritance divided in equal shares, four slaves and their manumission, a yearly clothing allowance of 200 drachmas, and her difficulty acting without a legal guardian since she has no husband and her children are abroad. It probably comes from the Herakleopolite nome in the early 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

The exegetes was a municipal magistrate who among other duties appointed guardians (kyrioi) for women and minors. Much of the line about lacking a guardian is restored by the editor.

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