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Petition concerning the lease of a settler's 100-aroura holding TM 3338Magdola (Arsinoites)224 - 218 v.Chr.

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A fragmentary petition from the Ptolemaic Arsinoite nome concerning leases of military settlers' holdings, including a 100-aroura plot, and failed crops. The petitioner complains that, after an earlier appeal to an official appointed by the strategos Diophanes, an opponent has invented pretexts and false claims to deny their rights, with reference to settlers at Karanis.

In English machine translation

[…] of the settlers (katoikoi) of the Arsinoite nome […]. For when (she?) had previously leased […] the 100-aroura holding, and likewise the […] having made a lease to the sons […] in addition to the orders and the other […] the crops having failed […] of clean seed […] […] part; concerning which also […] to obtain justice from them according to the ordinance […] appointed by Diophanes to the office of strategos […] from Alexandria I appealed to him and gave […] through both, setting out each of the things that had happened […] having given orders by name to the aforementioned […] […] to make […], and of the memorandum with the subscription […] at variance with me so that I may not obtain justice, having taken […] he has contrived pretexts, saying that the settlers […] of others more, to say that nothing belongs to me of the […] of the holding, writing falsely, and in addition to these he says […] the 30-aroura men and the 70-aroura men refused […] […] to belong of the things happening at Karanis through […] of them so that they may […] me […] […] […]

Katoikoi were military settlers holding allotments (kleroi) graded by size, here 30, 70 and 100 arouras. Diophanes was strategos of the Arsinoite nome in these years.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Procès à propos de baux). 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 · 224 - 218 v.Chr. · Magdola (Arsinoites)

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