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Petition against an aunt refusing to vacate an inherited house TM 3286Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites, Ägypten)13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.

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Petition to King Ptolemy IV from Apollonios son of Leptines of Krokodilopolis, complaining that his paternal aunt Thaisithis refuses to leave his inherited house in Pharbaitha, which he needs to sell to pay for his father's burial. He asks that she be evicted and made to pay back rent; the official's note orders the local epistates to reconcile the parties or send them on.

In English machine translation

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Apollonios son of Leptines, one of those residing in Krokodilopolis of the Arsinoite nome. I am wronged by Thaisithis, my father's sister. For I own a house inherited from my father in Pharbaitha of the division of Herakleides, and Thaisithis lives in the aforementioned house; and when my father died in year 23, and I needed the house so that by selling it I might bury my father, and I instructed Thaisithis to vacate the house, she paid no attention, scorning me because I am an orphan. I beg you therefore, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Mnaseas, the epistates in Pharbaitha, to send Thaisithis to him and, if what I write is true, […] to compel her to vacate the house, since, having been given a dowry by my father, she does not […] and […] that she be made to pay me the rent from year 23, from the time my father died, […] each 5 drachmas, which makes […]. For if this is done through you, O King, the common saviour of all, I shall obtain justice. Farewell. To Mnaseas. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send […] [verso] Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29. Apollonios son of Leptines against Thaisithis concerning a house and rent.

The epistates was the village official responsible for local disputes; the instruction 'preferably reconcile them' is the standard response written on such petitions. The verso docket gives a double Macedonian and Egyptian date.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Jouissance d’une maison). 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 · 13. Jan. 218 v.Chr. · Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

[r] βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ἀπολλώνιος Λεπτίνου, τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν Κροκοδίλων πόλει τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Θαισίθιος τῆς ἀδελφῆς τοῦ πατρός μου. ὑπαρχούσης γάρ μοι πατρικῆς οἰκίας ἐν Φαρβαίθοις τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος καὶ οἰκούσης Θαισίθιος ἐν τῆι προγεγραμμένηι …