Fragments of a petition
Small fragments forming the end of a petition to a nameless official, who must be the dux of Thebaid. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36709
End of a petition complaining of the plunder of a house TM 36709Antinoopolis (?)VIth Century AD
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
The end of a petition from the archive of Dioskoros, addressed to a high official, probably the duke of the Thebaid. The petitioner complains that someone, helped by rustics, brigands and powerful persons, seized his produce, broke into his house and plundered his goods, and he begs the official by the emperors and the official's family to punish the wrongdoer.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] with all […]
[…] of the cancellarius, and taking away their produce
[…] drained from my wretched, stripped soul, and the
[…] to the lessees and for the collection of the public taxes, and he did not
[hesitate, with the help of rustics and] brigands and more powerful persons, in every manner,
[to break into my house, and to carry off] its goods and plunder them. Therefore I adjure you by the immortal
[head and by our most pious] emperors, and by our very masters and [lords] of the whole province
[and the most glorious children, and] by the salvation that is above all, not to overlook me nor my
[supplication, but to punish his injustice] and […] from the root, so that
[having obtained this benefaction I may raise a hymn], praying for your continuance and the safety
[of the most glorious children and of all your] bountiful household always, master
[…] most distinguished and
Much of the left side is restored from formulas common in Dioskoros' petitions. A cancellarius was a clerk or secretary on an official's staff.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Menus fragments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.masp.2.67205
[… ? lines lost …] […]μετὰ πάσης κ[…] […] τοῦ καγκελλαρίου, καὶ ἀφαιροῦντες τὰ γενήματααὐτῶν […]ι σεσειρωμένα τῇ ταλαιπώρῳ μου γυμνῇ ψυχῇ, καὶ τὸ […] μισθώταις καὶ πρὸς εἴσπραξιν τῶν δημοσίων, καὶ οὐκ ὤκνησεν, μετὰ βοηθείας παγανικῆς τε καὶ λῃστρικῆς καὶ δυνατωτέρων προσώπων παντ…