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Petition of a Thracian orphan about boundaries of allotments and stolen wood TM 3343Ghoran (Arsinoites)222 - 221 v.Chr.

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Petition to the king from a Thracian orphan holding a military allotment, complaining that Zoilos has encroached on his land and embankment and carried off tamarisk wood. He asks that the surveyor be instructed to restore the boundaries of both allotments and that Zoilos be made to pay for the wood. From Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome, 222-221 BC.

In English machine translation

[…] an orphan, a Thracian […] […] I am wronged by Zoilos […] […] while […]amos was still living, took (?) […] […] Ptolemais the […] […] and to be planted […] […] tamarisk trees, and while my father was enjoying the produce […] […] of the wood as long as he lived, and after the death […] […] of me having […] and enjoying the produce until year 2 (?) […] […] having received the paternal allotment (kleros) in year 26 […] […] the village, he lays claim to the embankment and […] […] carries off, using force against me, treating me with contempt […] […] I beg you therefore, O king, if it please you, to order […] […] the scribe to write to the surveyor whose duty it is […] […] my allotment and that of Zoilos who lays claim […] […] to give back to each the boundaries according to the existing […] […] fourth, and if it appears that […] […] to exact from him the price of the wood […] […] thirty. For if this is done […] […] I shall have obtained justice. Farewell. […] having received […] […] year 26 […]

The kleros was a plot of land granted to a military settler, here inherited from the petitioner's father. Petitions of this type (enteuxeis) were formally addressed to the king but handled by local officials.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contestation sur le bornage de deux tenures). 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 · 222 - 221 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

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