Petition
A petition, probably by Isidorus, son of Ptolemaeus, to an official whose name and title are lost, asking to be relieved of a liturgy.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30626
Petition of an old man asking release from a liturgy TM 30626Kom Aushim (Karanis)1st quarter of 4th century A.D.
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The end of a petition, probably by Isidoros son of Ptolemaios of Karanis, to an official whose name and title are lost. He complains that he is being pushed into duties such as grain collection and asks to be released so that he, an old man, can attend to the irrigation of his land.
In English machine translation
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to sitologia (?) and collections, wishing me to abandon my own (land) and to be nominated (?) for this duty, so that I, an old man, may be able to devote myself to the irrigation of my arouras.
Liturgies were compulsory public services, such as acting as sitologos (grain collector), imposed on property owners. The museum record dates the papyrus more narrowly to the first quarter of the 4th century.
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.
p.cair.isid.138
[… 20 lines lost …] εἴς τε σιτολογίας καὶ ἀπαιτήσεις βουλόμενοί με τὴν ἰδίαν ἐνκαταλιπεῖν εἰς ταύτην τὴν πορείαν ἀναδοθῆναι ἵνα δυνηθῶ τῇ ἀρδείᾳ τῶν ἀρουρῶν ἄνθρωπος πρέσβυς ἀσχολάζειν.