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Petition against siblings over a mother's inheritance TM 35050Oxyrhynchites (?)V - VI

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A petition to a scholastikos acting as deputy governor for the province of Arcadia, from a member of the official's staff. The petitioner complains that his siblings Joseph and Theodote have seized their mother's estate, including property she left him in writing, and asks that they be compelled through the councillor Theon to hand over his share. Probably from the Oxyrhynchite area, 5th to 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] scholastikos, deputy for the parts of the province of Arcadia, [from …] of this venerable office (taxis). My siblings Joseph and Theodote, having forgotten brotherly affection, think that they alone will have the parental property from our mother, and having taken possession of the property, they are unwilling to withdraw without trouble from my share of the maternal estate, appropriating up to now the management of the property left to me in writing by my mother. For this reason I approach your authority, asking it, through Theon the respected councillor, to compel them also to […] of the things given to me in writing by my mother, so that I may acknowledge my gratitude to your authority, most pure lord. […] [verso] [… 13 lines lost …]

A scholastikos was a legally trained advocate; here one serves as topoteretes, a deputy holding the governor's place. The petitioner's name and much of the sought remedy are lost, and the verso is not preserved.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). 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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p.oxy.24.2418

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · V - VI · Oxyrhynchites (?)

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