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Petition of Lykos against Petesis over a jointly leased allotment TM 3333Magdola (Arsinoites)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.

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A petition to King Ptolemy III from Lykos, who had jointly leased the military allotment of Theokles and complains that his partner Petesis failed to contribute seed, oxen and his share of the work while taking advantage. He asks the king to instruct the epistates Moschion to examine the lease contract and settle the division of the sesame crop; the endorsement orders Moschion to reconcile the parties or refer the case upward.

In English machine translation

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Lykos. I am wronged by Petesis […]. For having leased the allotment of Theokles […] the contract with him […] we are cultivating, but of the sowing […] but we sowed […] expense and […] being grasping, put forward (?) […] to make clear both […] of the allotment, and in the […] by Lykomedes into […] measuring out seed to him […] they brought down, but he shamefully (?) […] seed nor the yokes of oxen […] has measured into the royal [granary] […] of the hundred-aroura holder. I beg you therefore, O King, […] to write to Moschion the epistates […] having examined the contract […] Petesis the […] of sesame, and if it is […] that I give him […] of the sesame the share falling [to him] […] for the remaining time of the lease. […] I shall obtain justice. […] To Moschion. Preferably reconcile them; otherwise, send them to us so that we may examine the matter. Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13. [verso] Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13. Lykos against Petesis concerning the lease of an allotment.

The right side of each line is lost, so the precise grievances are partly uncertain. A 'hundred-aroura holder' (hekatontarouros) was a cleruch holding a military land grant of 100 arouras.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Exécution d’un bail en commun). 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)

[r] βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Λύκος. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Πετεσίου[…]μισθωσάμενος γὰρ τὸν Θεοκλέους κλῆρον[…] τὴν συγγραφὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν[…] εργώμεθα, τοῦ δὲ σπόρου[…] ἀλλὰ κατεσπείραμεν […] μενον ἀνάλωμα καὶ συν[…] πλεονέκτης ὢν προεστ[…] διασαφῆσαι ἀμφοτερ[…] τοῦ κλήρου, ἐν δὲ τῶι […] ὑ…