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Report of an assault and seizure of goods near a village TM 703466unbekanntII v.Chr.

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Fragmentary report of an incident submitted to an official in Ptolemaic Egypt, 2nd century BC. The writers describe finding hidden items by a fig tree, a scuffle in which one Protarchos was seized and a fodder bag, oil flask and club were taken, and being chased from the village; they ask that the culprits be punished so the royal revenues suffer no loss.

In English machine translation

[…] […] our suspicion was dispelled (?) […] because they are accused of practising the trade […] we do (?) so we found the aforementioned […] hidden at the fig tree together with Heliodoros […] as we were going up to the village so as to hand over […] and to the others to whom it is customary; so again […] having […] us […] with their hands […] and others […] and Protarchos having seized […] that he had the fodder bag in which there was an oil flask and the club […] they thrust at him […] until they took away the fodder bag with the flask and the club, but we have the felt cap […] of these […] […] and they chased us […] of the village, some people being present. Therefore we submit to you this report so that you may forward it to those concerned […] they may meet with the appropriate punishment. When this has been done we shall have obtained fair treatment and nothing of what is useful to the royal treasury will be lost. Farewell.

The document calls itself a prosangelma, a formal report of an offence to an official. The concern for the royal treasury suggests the writers were agents guarding a royal monopoly or revenue.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anzeige). 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.koeln.17.662

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

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