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Petition of a banker against a donkey-driver for the return of clothes TM 3313Magdola (Arsinoites)27. Febr. 221 v.Chr.

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A petition to King Ptolemy from Herakleides, manager of the bank in the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome, against the donkey-driver Athenogenes of Kaminoi. Herakleides had hired 73 donkeys to transport royal money and handed Athenogenes a tunic and cloak wrapped in a cloth, which were not returned; he asks that the local epistates investigate and compel their return. It was filed at Magdola in 221 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Herakleides, manager of the bank in the division of Polemon. I am wronged by Athenogenes, one of the donkey-drivers in Kaminoi. For when I hired from him 73 donkeys for the transport of the royal moneys, and gave him a towel (?) in which were a tunic and a cloak […], pledged by the peoples (?) […] the due […] the returns; but Athenogenes […] did not give back to us […] if it is shown that he received from me from […] […] a letter to us […] concerning these very matters. I beg you therefore, O King, if it seems good to you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Hephaistion, the epistates in Kaminoi, to summon Athenogenes and investigate these matters, and, if we show that we gave him the cloak and the tunic in the towel, to compel him to return to us the […] he has issued a letter to us. For if this is done, through you, O King, the common saviour and benefactor of all, I shall obtain justice. Farewell. To Hephaistion. Preferably reconcile them; otherwise send them so that they may be judged before the proper court. Year 1, Gorpiaios 30, Tybi [13]. [verso] Year 1, Gorpiaios 30, Tybi 13. Herakleides, manager, against Athenogenes, concerning clothes.

The strategos's docket orders the epistates to reconcile the parties or send them to the proper court, standard in the Magdola petitions. The word rendered 'towel' (cheiromaktron) is a cloth or napkin used here as a wrapper; the circumstances of the pledged clothes are 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 vêtements). 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 · 27. Febr. 221 v.Chr. · Magdola (Arsinoites)

[r] βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ἡρακλείδης, χειριστὴς τῆς ἐν τῆι Πολέμωνος μερίδι τραπέζης. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ἀθηνογένους, τῶν ἐν Καμίνοις ὀνηλατῶν. μισθωσαμένου γάρ μου παρʼ αὐτοῦ ὄνους ογ πρὸς τὴν παρακομιδὴν τῶν βασιλικῶν χρημάτων, καὶ δόντος αὐτῶι χειρώμακτρον ἐν ὧι …χιτὼν καὶ ἱμά…