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Petition about pigs penned up and killed TM 3346Magdola (Arsinoites)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.

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Petition to King Ptolemy from a cavalryman of the fourth hipparchy whose pigs were penned up and killed, including a pregnant white sow. He asks that the strategos Diophanes instruct the epistates Dioskourides to make the culprits pay the animals' value; the strategos's order to investigate is added below. From Magdola in the Arsinoite nome, 222 BC.

In English machine translation

To King Ptolemy, greeting, […] of the fourth hipparchy. I am wronged […] while my sacrificial animals were grazing near the […] and having shut them up in the tamarisk thicket […] eight piglets, and the sow is […] with the piglets […] after this they killed another, a white one, pregnant, which was worth […] drachmas. I beg you therefore, O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Dioskourides the epistates that, if the statements in the petition are true, he exact from them the value of the animals. For if this is done, having taken refuge with you, the common benefactor of all, I shall have obtained justice. Farewell. To Dioskourides. Having investigated, see to it that he obtains justice. Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13.

The word translated 'sacrificial animals' (hiereia) here refers to the petitioner's pigs. The subscription gives a double date in the Macedonian (Loios) and Egyptian (Choiak) calendars.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dommages à un troupeau de porcs). 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)

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