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Petition of a Thracian cavalryman about eviction from his billet TM 3291Magdola (Arsinoites, Ägypten)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.

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Petition to King Ptolemy III from Dizaporis, a Thracian cavalry settler holding 70 arouras, complaining that the village epistates Deinias evicted his horse from his billet in a mortgaged house at Kerkesoucha and lodged an Egyptian there. He asks the strategos Diophanes to order the Egyptian out; a note directs Deinias to report.

In English machine translation

To King Ptolemy, greetings from Dizaporis, Thracian, […] of the […] hipparchy, holder of 70 arouras. I am wronged by Deinias the epistates. For when […]rokinos' wife had mortgaged the […] which she held in Kerkesoucha, and the term of the mortgage had passed, instead of renewing it she made a supplementary payment (?) according to the ordinance; and while I was living in this billet, Deinias came and threw out my horse without a hearing and settled […] there, so that my horse is in the open air. I beg you therefore, O king, if it seems good to you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Deinias the epistates to evict the Egyptian and give the house back to me; and if he raises any objection, that he be brought to judgement with me, so that it may not happen, with the horse standing in the open, that some mishap befall it and […]. For when this is done, having taken refuge with you, O king, I shall obtain justice. To Deinias. Report to us about these matters how they stand (?). Farewell. Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13.

The stathmos was a billet: soldiers were quartered in private houses, here one under mortgage. The term epikatabole, a payment made under the royal ordinance in place of renewing the mortgage, is technical and its exact sense uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Logement militaire dans une maison hypothéquée). 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 · 28. Jan. 222 v.Chr. · Magdola (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Διζάπορις, Θρᾶιξ […]ἱππαρχίας ἑβδομηκοντάρουρος. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Δεινίου τοῦ ἐπιστάτου. ὑποθεμένης γὰρ[…]ροκινου γυναικὸς τὴν […]…πων[…]ἣν εἶχεν ἐν Κερκεσούχοις καὶ διελθόντος τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ὑποθήκην χρόνου ἀντὶ τοῦ ταύτην ἀνανεώσασθαι ἐπικαταβολὴν ἐποιήσατ…