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Petition of Dionysios concerning theft of goods by a woman he took into his house TM 3306Letopolis (Arsinoites)25. Febr. 221 v.Chr.

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A petition to King Ptolemy from Dionysios, a resident of Letous polis in the Arsinoite nome, complaining that a woman he had taken into his house waited for an opportunity and took his goods, including a man's garment and warp thread. He asks the king to have the strategos Diophanes instruct the local epistates to force her to return them if the charges are true.

In English machine translation

To King Ptolemy, greeting, from Dionysios, one of those residing in Letous polis […] […] for when I had brought her into my house […] […]; and in Year 1, on the 11th of Tybi, having watched for a moment when I was […] […] a man's [cloak?] worth 40 drachmas, half a mina of warp thread worth 5 drachmas, oil […] [I beg you therefore, O king,] to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Ptolemaios [the epistates] […] […] [if] these things [are] true, to compel her to [return] […] Farewell. [To Ptolemaios. Above all, reconcile them; if not, send them so that (the case may be decided)] before the […]

The final line is a restored official docket ordering the epistates to reconcile the parties or else send them for judgment, a standard formula of these petitions. The relationship of the woman to Dionysios is lost in the gap.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vol d’objets). 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 · 25. Febr. 221 v.Chr. · Letopolis (Arsinoites)

βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Διονύσιος, τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν Λητοῦς πόλει[…] […] εἰσαγαγόντος γάρ μου αὐτὴν πρὸς ἐμαυτὸν […] […]εντα· τοῦ δὲ α ἔτους, μηνὸς Τῦβι ια, καιροτηρήσασά με ὄντα[…] […]ον ἀνδρεῖον ἄξιον δραχμῶν μ, στήμονος ἡμιμναῖον δραχμῶν ε, ἐλαιο[…] δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλε…