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Petition concerning a contract debt, with official minute on a 12-aroura holding TM 3372Ghoran (Arsinoites)219 - Dez. 217 v.Chr.

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Fragment of a petition (enteuxis) from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome, asking that the strategos be instructed to write to Onesandros so the petitioner's claim under a contract for bronze drachmas can be decided. The verso carries an official note to Poseidion recording the petition of one Kallisth[…] concerning a 12-aroura holding and its carried-off produce, and the summoning of Sokrat[…].

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] to write to Diodion (?), the strategos, [to] Onesandros […] so that my case may be decided, and, if I prove these things, […] from him according to the contract […] drachmas of bronze […], I shall obtain justice. […] [verso] To Poseidion. Kallisth[…] brought a petition […]kles, holding of 12 arouras, and of which the produce […] carried off […] to send them to you. And when Sokrat[…] had been summoned […] them to you […] to appoint (?) over […]

The strategos's name is only partly preserved (…dion); the restoration is uncertain. An enteuxis is a petition formally addressed to the king and handled by the strategos.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 219 - Dez. 217 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

[r] [… ? lines lost …] δίωνι τῶι στρατηγῶι γράψαι Ὀνησάνδρωι[…] ἵνα διακριθῆι μοι καί, ἐὰν ἐνδείξωμαι ταῦτα[…] παρʼ αὐτοῦκατὰ τὴν συγγραφὴν χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς[…] τοῦ δικαίου τεύξομαι. [… 2 lines lost …] [v] Ποσειδίωνι. ἐκόμισεν ἔντευξιν Καλλισθ[…] κλέους κλήρου ἀρουρῶν ιβ, καὶ ὧν τὰ …