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Petition to the king about belongings withheld after a death TM 3304Magdola (Arsinoites)13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.

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A petition to King Ptolemy IV from a Persian of the epigone, complaining that a man and a woman named Theudote living at Pelusion kept his belongings (a sickle, an axe, a container of wool-flock, a chest and 20 drachmas in bronze) after a woman's death while he was away at Bakchias. He asks that the strategos Diophanes have the epistates Menandros compel them to do him justice; the docket orders reconciliation or referral to court. It comes from Magdola in the Arsinoite nome, 218 BC.

In English machine translation

To King Ptolemy, greeting, […]enes(?), Persian of the epigone. I am wronged by […] and […] his […] Theudote, who live in Pelusion […] Mesore. For when we both lived […] with them, and in the aforementioned year […] having ended her life, and there being belongings of mine […] a reaping sickle worth 2 drachmas, an axe worth 2 drachmas 3 obols, […] full of wool-flock worth 5 drachmas, a chest […] and 20 drachmas in bronze coin, which I showed […] I went away to Bakchias in order to report […] the ending of her life; and after this, when I returned, […] despising me because I am a stranger […] to deprive me. I beg you therefore, O King, not to overlook me being wronged, but to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Menandros the epistates to compel them to do what is just for me. For if this is done, I shall obtain justice through you, O King, the common benefactor of all. Farewell. [Docket:] To Menandros. Above all reconcile them; if not, send them to us from the 10th of Choiak, so that they may be judged before the appropriate court. Year 4, Daisios 26, Hathyr 28.

"Persian of the epigone" is a legal-status designation of Ptolemaic Egypt with no exact English equivalent. The text is double-dated by the Macedonian (Daisios) and Egyptian (Hathyr) calendars.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Détournement d’objets et d’argent). 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. · Magdola (Arsinoites)

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