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Petition about a violent break-in at an Isis shrine TM 3355Arsinoe epi tu chomatos (Arsinoites)

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Petition to King Ptolemy from Amenneus, keeper of an Isis shrine, and his wife Stotoetis of Arsinoe-on-the-Dyke in the Fayum. They complain that Tnepheros daughter of Petosiris and a group of men, sons of Aximamas, broke into their shrine, beat them, locked up the wife and threw her two children into a storage jar until neighbours intervened.

In English machine translation

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Amenneus, isionomos (keeper of the Isis shrine), and Stotoetis my wife, residents of Arsinoe-on-the-Dyke, in the division of Themistos. We are wronged by Tnepheros daughter of Petosiris, who lives in the same village as we do. For in year 6, Mesore 22 by the revenue calendar, she took along Thasis and Thason and Bari[…] and Thanesis and Tathripis and Aximamas and Hermippos and Poseidonios, the sons of Aximamas, and they entered the Isis shrine that belongs to us, which is in the aforesaid village, and inflicted many blows on us, striking whatever part of the body they happened to hit. When my wife Stotoetis, the aforementioned, leapt out and went into one of the rooms in the Isis shrine, and was pursued by them, Aximamas of the aforementioned shut her in […] with a cone-shaped(?) […]; and Tnepheros threw the two children of Stotoetis into a storage jar. I fled to the altar and shouted for people; and when some people arrived and rebuked them, they left off and went away. They committed these acts […] in the Isis shrine […] while (?) performing the sacrifices and libations […] […] [verso] Amenneus against Tnepheros. Year 5, Mesore 25. To Onesandros.

The body dates the incident to year 6 while the docket gives year 5, an apparent inconsistency; the incident date is reckoned 'by the revenue calendar'. An isionomos was the official in charge of a local Isis shrine.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Incursion avec violences dans un isieion). 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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[r] βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ἀμεννεῦς, ἰσιονόμος, καὶ Στοτοῆτις ἡ γυνή μου, κατοικοῦντες Ἀρσινόην τὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ χώματος, τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος. ἀδικούμεθα ὑπὸ Τνεφερώυτος τῆς Πετοσίριος, κατοικούσης τὴν αὐτὴν ἡμῖν κώμην. τοῦ γὰρ ϛ ἔτους, Μεσορὴ κβ, ὡς αἱ πρόσοδοι, παραλαβοῦσα Θασῖ…