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Petition to the king about an assault by Peithias at Berenikis Thesmophorou TM 3349Berenikis Thesmophoru (Arsinoites)27. Febr. 221 v.Chr.

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A petition to King Ptolemy from a man, son of Antigenes and a 'Persian of the epigone' living at Berenikis Thesmophorou in the Arsinoite nome, complaining that Peithias abused and physically assaulted him at a house gateway. He asks that the strategos Diophanes have the epistates Pythiades send Peithias for judgment and that the assessed penalty be exacted. The docket orders Pythiades to reconcile the parties or else send them on for trial.

In English machine translation

[To King Ptolemy, greetings.] […] son of Antigenes, Persian of the epigone, residing in Berenikis by the Thesmophorion [in the division of Polemon]. I am wronged by Peithias, residing in the [same village. For in year …, Tybi] 11, while I was standing at the gateway […] of the house which is in the aforementioned [village] […] of the aforementioned, abuse […] Peithias the aforementioned, coming up, not […] with his right hand into my left […] he struck me on whatever part of my body he happened to hit […] committed by him, Peithias […] me with his right leg into the […] in the presence of some people, whom I also called to witness. And he did these things […] insulting me and starting an unjust assault on me. Therefore I assess the outrage at […]. I beg you therefore, O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Pythiades the epistates to send Peithias to him, so that, since I am not able to bring a suit against him, if I prove that the statements in the petition are true, he may write to the collector for foreigners to exact from Peithias the assessed penalty for the outrage and pay it to me. When this is done, I shall have obtained, O King, your benevolence. Farewell. To Pythiades. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send them so that they may obtain justice according to the laws. Year 1, Gorpiaios 30, Tybi 13.

'Persian of the epigone' was a legal-status designation in Ptolemaic Egypt rather than an ethnic label. The petitioner's own name is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte pour violences). 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 · 27. Febr. 221 v.Chr. · Berenikis Thesmophoru (Arsinoites)

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