Payment for fodder
Heracleides demands the 5 drachmas that Aristomachos owes him. The verso contains a summary of the petition.
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Petition of Herakleides against Aristomachos over the price of hay TM 3311Magdola (Arsinoite Nome)Feb. 27, 221 BC
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A petition to King Ptolemy from Herakleides, a Larisaean cavalry settler holding 100 arouras, complaining that Aristomachos has not paid him 5 copper drachmas owed for a crop of hay. He asks that the strategos Diophanes have the village epistates send Aristomachos before him and enforce payment; the strategos' instruction and a docket follow. Written in 221 BC at Magdola in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Herakleides, Larisaean, of the 3rd hipparchy, holder of 100 arouras. I am wronged by Aristomachos. For, owing me for […] arouras of hay […] the price […] 5 copper drachmas, and even now, though I demand the price from him, he does not pay it. I beg you therefore, O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Herakleides, epistates of the village of Memphis, to send him to Diophanes and, if these things are true, that he be made to pay the 5 drachmas, the price of the hay, and that it be paid to me, so that I may obtain justice through you, O King. Farewell.
To Herakleides. See to it that he obtains justice. Year 1, Gorpiaios 30, Tybi 13.
[verso]
Year 1, Gorpiaios 30, Tybi 13.
Herakleides, holder of 100 arouras, against Aristomachos, concerning the price of hay.
Like other petitions of this kind, it is formally addressed to the king but was handled by the strategos, whose short instruction to the epistates is written below. 'Memphis' here is a village of that name in the Fayum, not the capital.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Paiement d’une coupe de fourrage). 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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