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Petition of Patron against Nikostratos over woollen textiles for the crown TM 3279Ghoran (Arsinoites)20. Sept. 259 v.Chr.

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Petition from Patron to King Ptolemy II complaining that Nikostratos, deputy of the official Antisthenes, is making him pay a second time for woollen 'Syrian' textiles he had already delivered under the royal wool monopoly. He asks that the case go to the strategos of the Lake district (the Fayum). Dated 259 BC, from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Patron. I am wronged by Nikostratos, who was deputy to Antisthenes […] the Lake (district) […] was in charge of the records. When I had contracted from Antisthenes for the villages of Stoto[…] and Phermouthis, and when […] of the royal […] had been imposed, to collect [the wool] from the shepherds together with […], they said they had none except for Syrian blankets (?) […], which I took and, having finished them, delivered to Nikostratos. Now I am being made to pay their price a second time. I therefore beg you, King, if it please you, that my petition be sent to the strategos who is in the Lake (district), so that, if I prove that Nikostratos received from me the Syrian blankets whose wool I took from the shepherds, Nikostratos be compelled to give me justice. For he hides behind the oikonomoi who come to the Lake (district), and so I cannot obtain justice from him. Farewell. (Docket) Year 27, submitted in Loios. Goodbye. Year 27, Gorpiaios 9. [verso] Petitions and copies of them

'Syrian' (syriai) were a type of woollen rug or blanket; the draft contains many deletions, suggesting a draft or file copy. 'The Lake' was the early name of the Fayum district.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Livraison d’étoffes de laine pour le monopole). 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 · 20. Sept. 259 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

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