Fragmentary petition to King Ptolemy from Ptolemaios, a royal farmer, concerning a former village headman (komarch), grain and a sum of copper drachmas, asking that the strategos instruct the epistates Onesandros to exact the remaining 85 1/2 drachmas. It bears the official's endorsement directing Onesandros to investigate; it comes from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To King Ptolemy, greetings from Ptolemaios, royal farmer […]
[…] of the former komarch […]
[…] price in copper, 100 drachmas […]
[…] the grain, but the remainder he himself […]
[…] to remain (?) a longer time […]
[…] to the strategos to write to Onesandros the epistates […]
[…] having exacted from him the remaining 85 1/2 drachmas […]
[…] having taken refuge with you, the saviour of all, I shall obtain justice. […]
To Onesandros. Having investigated, see to it [that he obtains justice.]
[verso]
[…]
[…] 30 drachmas […]
A royal farmer cultivated crown land under lease from the state. The endorsement to Onesandros is the strategos's standard instruction forwarding the petition to the local epistates.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment d’ ἔντευξις avec procès - verbal). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.