Petition of the cleruch Alkimedon concerning a will TM 3293Karanis? (Arsinoites)27. Febr. 221 v.Chr.

A petition (enteuxis) addressed to King Ptolemy by Alkimedon, a cavalry settler of the 2nd hipparchy holding 100 arouras, concerning a will. He asks the king to order the strategos Diophanes to write to an official, and the strategos' instruction to Lysimachos follows; the petition was filed in 221 BC, probably at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

The right half of each line is lost, so the nature of the dispute over the will is known only from the docket on the back. A 'hundred-aroura man' was a military settler (cleruch) holding an allotment of 100 arouras.

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