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Petition of a Macedonian cleruch about tamarisk wood cut by Dorion TM 3312Magdola (Arsinoites)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.

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A petition to King Ptolemy from a Macedonian cleruch holding 30 arouras, complaining that a certain Dorion cut down and carried off tamarisk wood on land the petitioner had bought at public auction, without him and contrary to royal ordinance. He asks the strategos Diophanes to have the case heard and his share of the wood returned; the strategos's note instructs the epistates Isokrates to reconcile the parties or refer them back. Written at Magdola in the Arsinoite nome in 222 BC.

In English machine translation

[To King Ptolemy, greeting, …]os, Macedonian, holder of 30 arouras, of those not yet under a commander […] […] For when I had bought the (holding?) of Semtheus, the former village scribe of […] the same village, from the public auction, and other royal land […] a great quantity of tamarisk wood, Dorion, learning that I was at […], […] cut down the wood without me on Choiak 12, not […] paying […] of the wood, contrary to your ordinance. I beg you therefore, O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Isokrates the epistates […] they have been carried off, not to allow Dorion […] but to come before Diophanes and have the case decided with me, and if I prove that the statements in this petition are true, […] that my share of the wood be returned to me. For if this is done, I shall, through you, O King, the common saviour of all, have obtained justice. To Isokrates. Preferably reconcile them; otherwise, send them to us so that we may examine the matter. Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13.

"Not yet under a commander" refers to cleruchs not yet enrolled in a military unit. The closing note is the strategos's standard endorsement on enteuxis petitions.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte à propos d’une coupe de bois). 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 · 28. Jan. 222 v.Chr. · Magdola (Arsinoites)

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