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Petition about theft of wheat from threshing floors TM 43902OxyrhynchitesI v.Chr.

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End of a petition to an official by a farmer of royal land near the Iseum of Pekysis, reporting that robbers carried off about 4 artabas of wheat from each of his two threshing floors. He suspects the threshing-floor guard Sarapion and others sleeping there and asks that the culprits be found and punished. Oxyrhynchite nome, 1st century BC.

In English machine translation

[…] to go up (?) from the threshing floor which I have near the Iseum of Pekysis, they carried off in the manner of robbers up to 4 artabas of wheat, and likewise from the other threshing floor which I have near the same Iseum, of the royal land which I farm, another 4 artabas of wheat. Suspecting therefore Sarapion the threshing-floor guard and the others who sleep there, on account of which, having been wronged, I report this and ask you to order that the culprits be sought out and brought before you, so that I may recover what was taken, and those who are shown to be guilty may receive what is fitting, as a deterrent to others, so that I may be helped. Farewell.

The beginning, including the addressee and petitioner's name, is lost. Royal land was crown land leased to cultivators.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition concerning Theft). 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.12.1465

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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