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Petition about a collapsed wall injuring a pregnant wife TM 47503Soknopaiou Nesos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIInd century/Ist century B.C.

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A petition from Petesis son of Papaios to Demetrios, the village epistates and chief of police of Soknopaiou Nesos. He complains that the wall of Psenatymis the weaver collapsed on his sleeping wife and daughter, endangering the life of his pregnant wife and destroying a cloak, a woman's tunic and other household goods.

In English machine translation

To Demetrios, epistates and archiphylakites of Soknopaiou Nesos, from Petesis son of Papaios, of those from the same village. On the 29th of Phaophi of year …, while my wife was sleeping with our daughter upstairs in her house, the wall of Psenatymis, weaver, fell on top of them and […] … my wife being pregnant, and she is in danger of her life; and for this reason it happened that a cloak worth 1 talent of bronze was lost, and a woman's tunic worth 4,000 drachmas, and the rest of the furnishings in the house. Therefore I submit to you this memorandum so that […] him […] until I obtain justice. Farewell.

The archiphylakites was the chief of the village police. The regnal year is illegible, and the request clause near the end is damaged.

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

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 6095 · IInd century/Ist century B.C. · Soknopaiou Nesos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Petition to Demetrios, epistates and archiphylakites of Soknopaiou Nesos, by Petesis son of Papaios, who complains that the fall of a wall of Psenatymis has hurted his pregnant wife and destroyed some furniture belonging to her.

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p.mich.15.688

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IInd century/Ist century B.C. · Soknopaiou Nesos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Δημητρίῳ ἐπιστάτῃ καὶ ἀρχιφυλακίτῃ Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου παρὰ Πετήσιος Παπαίου τῶν ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης. τῇ κθ τοῦ Φαῶφι τοῦ … ἔτους τῆς γυναικός μου καθευδούσης σὺν τῇ θυγατρὶ ἐπάνω ἐπὶ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτῆς ἔπεσεν ὁ τεῖχος Ψενατύμιος γερδίου ἐπάνω αὐτῶν καὶ […]…κήσατο κ…ιιτης δὲ γυναικός μου …