Fragmentary petition to King Ptolemy from a certain Theodoros about a dispute that arose while he was building at Kerkeesis in the Arsinoite nome, apparently involving Dionysios, husband of Bokis, and a penalty or payment of 100 drachmas. It bears the standard instruction to the strategos to have the epistates Neilos settle the parties, and a docket dated year 1, Gorpiaios 28 = Tybi 12 (221 BC), from Magdola.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[To King Ptolemy] greeting, Theodoros […]
[…] For while I was building in […]
[…] at Kerkeesis in the Arsinoite (nome) […]
[…] the husband of Bokis, Dionysios […]
[…] or of those acting for them […]
[…] to be invalid and to pay in addition […]
[…] to write to the strategos (?) to Neilos the epistates […]
[…] the things in the petition (are) true […]
[…] the penalty (?), the 100 drachmas […]
[…] through you, O King, of justice […]
[…] Preferably, settle their dispute.
[verso]
[Year 1, Gorpiaios 28,] Tybi 12.
[…]
[…]
Belongs to the Ptolemaic enteuxeis, petitions formally addressed to the king but handled by the strategos, whose note "preferably settle their dispute" ends the text. The docket date is largely restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.