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Petition to the king for recovery of 200 drachmas from Diogenes TM 3318Magdola (Arsinoites)27. Febr. 221 v.Chr.
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A petition to King Ptolemy from an elderly person complaining that Diogenes has ignored them and failed to return 200 drachmas received through intermediaries Simias and Krouph(is). The petitioner asks that the strategos Diophanes have the epistates Menandros summon the witnesses and send Diogenes, so the money can be recovered for support in old age. The strategos' docket orders Menandros to reconcile the parties or send Diogenes to the proper court; it dates from 221 BC at Magdola in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
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[…] … he takes no account (of me), but has disregarded me […] being in old age […]
I beg you therefore, O king, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Menandros the epistates to summon Simias and Krouphis (?), through whom he received the 200 [drachmas], and that the testimony taken be sent to Diophanes, and Diogenes himself with the written documents, so that Diophanes, having exacted payment from him, if these things are true, may give it back to me and I may have the necessities for my old age, so that I may, O king, through you have obtained justice and mercy for the rest of my life. Farewell.
(Docket:) To Menandros. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send Diogenes so that they may have their case decided before the appropriate court.
Year 1, Gorpiaios 30, Tybi 13.
The second name is written Κρούψ in the edition, apparently an abbreviated or unusual form. The date is double, in the Macedonian (Gorpiaios) and Egyptian (Tybi) calendars.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Restitution d’argent). 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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