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Petition of Diodoros against Damasippa concerning an inheritance TM 3278Magdola (Arsinoites)246 - 205 v.Chr.

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A petition addressed to King Ptolemy by Diodoros, complaining that Damasippa of Oxyrhyncha in the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome contested his inheritance from his kinsman Diogenes son of Rhodokles. The estate included sanctuaries of Demeter (Thesmophoria) at Dikaiou Kome and Oxyrhyncha, and Damasippa apparently arranged a division of the property while Diodoros was in Alexandria.

In English machine translation

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Diodoros. I am wronged by Damasippa, of Oxyrhyncha in the division of Polemon. For when I had obtained from Dositheos an ordinance concerning the property of Diogenes son of Rhodokles, my kinsman, because the inheritance belongs to me according to the laws, and there belonged to him in the village of Dikaiou a Thesmophorion of Demeter [and its] appurtenances, and likewise also another in Oxyrhyncha, Damasippa, claiming to be a kinswoman […] division of the property belonging to this inheritance, while I was in Alexandria […] in the village of Dikaiou has given (?) […] to hold and enjoy the produce […] [… lines lost …] [verso] Year […] Diodoros against Damasippa concerning an inheritance.

A Thesmophorion was a sanctuary of Demeter Thesmophoros; here it appears as heritable private property. Oxyrhyncha is a Fayum village, not the city of Oxyrhynchus.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 246 - 205 v.Chr. · Magdola (Arsinoites)

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