Petition of Demetria against the moneylender Agenor for return of pledges TM 3308Magdola (Arsinoites)27. Febr. 221 v.Chr.

Petition to King Ptolemy from a woman named Demetria of the Themistos division of the Arsinoite nome, complaining that the moneylender Agenor refuses to return pledged items, including a pair of gold earrings, even though she is repaying the 44 copper drachmas and interest. She asks that the strategos Diophanes have the epistates Ptolemaios compel him to return the pledges; she is ill and acts through her husband. It was filed at Magdola in 221 BC.

In English machine translation

The verso docket gives a double date in the Macedonian (Gorpiaios) and Egyptian (Tybi) calendars. The role of Eutychis in the transaction is obscured by gaps.

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