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Petition to the strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome from Stotoetis son of Stotoetis, a priest of Soknopaiou Nesos. After his two daughters, their husbands, his wife and many others died in his house, he left the house in the care of Pekysis and his wife Thases and moved to the hamlet of Halmyras near Herakleia; on his return he found the house had been interfered with by certain persons, where the text breaks off.
The many deaths in one household may reflect the Antonine plague of the later 2nd century AD. Fragment B preserves only the beginnings of lines and cannot be translated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
[FrA] […]ῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Στοτοήτεως τοῦ Στοτοήτεως ἱερέως ἀπὸ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου· πρὸς τὸν παρόντα καιρὸν τελευτησάντων κατὰ τὴν οἰκίαν μου θυγατέρων μου δύο μετὰ τῶν ἀνδρῶν αὐτῶν καὶ γυναικός μου καὶ ἄλλων πλείστων, ἀποδημήσας τὰ οἰκόπεδα παρεθέ…
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