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Petition to the king concerning undelivered fleeces TM 3281Magdola (Arsinoites)

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A petition addressed to King Ptolemy by a man of the Epigone from Ptolemais of the Arabs, complaining that someone who had agreed to buy or deliver wool still on the sheep handed over only 40 fleeces and withheld the rest. He asks the king to have the strategos Diophanes order an inquiry and send the offender for judgement; an official docket orders reconciliation or referral.

In English machine translation

To King Ptolemy, greetings, […] of the Epigone, from Ptolemais of the Arabs. I am wronged by […] the price of the wool that is on the sheep ready for shearing […] of the price agreed between us, both fleeces […] immediately, and that he should not have the right to shear the wool without me […] when asked for the wool he has delivered to me 40 fleeces, but the rest […] I therefore beg you, O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write […] to the epistates to look into these matters and, if this is true, to detain […] to send him to Diophanes for judgement, so that through you, O King, […] I may obtain justice. Farewell. [Docket:] [Above all reconcile] them; if not, send (him) to us so that we may look into it. Year 25, [Loios 26,] Choiak [13].

Petitions of this group were formally addressed to the king but handled by the strategos Diophanes; 'of the Epigone' denotes a legal status class of descendants of settlers. The regnal year 25 is likely of Ptolemy III (about 222 BC), but no exact date is given in the records..

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte relative à des toisons). 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 · Magdola (Arsinoites)

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