Fragment of a petition from Marcus Aurelius […]tios of Kerkeesis TM 26659Arsinoites (?)II

Fragment of a petition addressed to a secretary and to a certain Kallimachos by Marcus Aurelius […]tios from a village in the Arsinoite nome. The surviving phrases mention persons having the right of intermarriage, halves (of property?) and taxes, suggesting a request concerning shares of property and their tax liabilities.

In English machine translation

Epigamia, the legal right to contract a valid marriage with another civic group, was a privilege relevant to inheritance; its context here is lost. The village name Kerkeesis is a reading of the abbreviated form 'Kerkees-'.

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