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Petition of Diokles against Seos for unpaid wine TM 3310Magdola (Arsinoite Nome)Jan. 28, 222 BC

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A petition to King Ptolemy from Diokles complaining that Seos has not paid a debt of wine owed under an Egyptian contract, despite having promised before the epistates Polykrates to pay 30 choes within 30 days. Diokles asks that the strategos Diophanes instruct Polykrates to exact the wine or its market price; the strategos's instruction and a docket follow. Written at Magdola in the Arsinoite nome in 222 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Diokles. I am wronged by Seos. For when I previously submitted a petition to Diophanes the strategos, in which I declared that Seos, owing me 35 choes of wine under an Egyptian contract, had not paid me although repeatedly asked, and Diophanes wrote to Polykrates to investigate, Seos, appearing in year 25, Epeiph 27, gave a written undertaking that he would pay me 30 choes of wine within 30 days from the aforesaid day. I therefore beg you, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Polykrates the epistates that, if the statements in the petition are true, he should exact from him the 30 choes of wine or their current price in the market. For if this is done, I shall through you, O King, have obtained justice. Farewell. To Polykrates. If […] him from the […] to do what is just. [Year 25, Loios] 26, Choiak 13. [verso] Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13. Diokles against Seos concerning a debt of wine.

The chous is a liquid measure of roughly 3 litres. The debt is first given as 35 choes, but Seos undertook to pay 30, which is the amount claimed.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Remboursement de vin). 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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Reimbursement of wine

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE58954 · Jan. 28, 222 BC · Magdola (Arsinoite Nome)

Diocles is complaining about Seos, who is has not yet repaid to him the 30 measures of wine that he owes him, even though the matter had been already taken once to the epistates. So Diocles asks that Seos be forced to repay to the epistates on his account he value of the wine, in…

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p.enteux.35

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Jan. 222 v.Chr. · Magdola (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

[r] βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Διοκλῆς. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Σεῶτος. εἰσδόντος γάρ μου καὶ πρότερον ἔντευξιν Διοφάνει τῶι στρατηγῶι, διʼ ἧς ἐνεφάνιζον ὅτι ὀφείλων μοι ὁ Σεῶς κατὰ συγγραφὴν αἰγυπτίαν οἴνου χοῦς λε, ἀπῃτημένος πλεονάκις οὐκ ἀποδιδοίη μοι, καὶ τοῦ Διοφάνους γράψαντος Πολυκ…