Petition to the king about a donkey seized for alleged arrears of rent TM 3384Magdola (Arsinoites)27. Febr. 221 v.Chr.

A petition addressed to the king by a Macedonian, son of Dionysios, an Alexandrian not yet enrolled in a deme. He complains that after he sowed 5 arouras with sesame in year 26, his donkey was seized in Pauni on the claim that he still owed rent, and asks that the strategos Diophanes check the accounting office records and have Timokrates return the donkey. It was written at Magdola in the Arsinoite nome in 221 BC.

In English machine translation

Ekphoria are rents in kind owed on leased land, here probably royal land. The double date gives both a Macedonian month (Gorpiaios) and an Egyptian month (Tybi).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Saisie injustifiée d’un âne par le fisc). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.