Petition of Smithis to the king about rebuilding a collapsed sanctuary TM 3284Magdola (Arsinoites, Ägypten)26. Febr. 221 v.Chr.

Petition (enteuxis) to King Ptolemy from Smithis son of Thoteus, who asks that the strategos Diophanes be instructed to allow him to rebuild a structure, apparently a sanctuary, that had collapsed in his village. It was filed in the Arsinoite nome (Magdola) in 221 BC.

In English machine translation

The identification of the building as a sanctuary rests on the editors' interpretation; Thresimis appears to be the name of a deity or of the shrine's owner. The docket gives a double date in the Macedonian (Gorpiaios) and Egyptian (Tybi) calendars.

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