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A petition from Ptolemaios, a military settler holding 70 arouras, to Onesandros, epistates of the Themistos division of the Arsinoite nome, complaining that Harchebis grazed his cows on Ptolemaios' vetch crop near Andromachis and apparently assaulted the shepherd who found them, taking the cows back. He asks that Harchebis be summoned. The text dates to around 219-217 BC.
The middle of the narrative is badly damaged, so the details of the confrontation with the shepherd are uncertain. The 'seventy-aroura man' was a cleruch, a soldier granted land of that size.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anzeige wegen Feldschadens). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ὀνησάνδρωι ἐπιστάτηι τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος παρὰ Πτολεμαίου ἑβδομηκονταρούρου. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ἁρχήβιος· ὑπάρχοντος γάρ μοι ἀράκου περὶ κώμην Ἀνδρομαχίδα τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος ἐπαφεὶς ὁ Ἁρχῆβις τὰς βοῦς ἐπένειμεν ἡμέρας τῆι ιε τοῦ Ἁθύρ. τοῦ δὲ ποιμένος Ἱέρωνος ἐλθόντος εἰς τὸ πεδίον ο…
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