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Petition of tenants against a cavalry settler over rent grain at Euhemeria TM 7406Arsinoites222 - 221 v.Chr.

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A petition to the strategos Diophanes from three tenants, Onetor, Asklepiades and Mousaios, against the cavalry settler Lysandros, whose 100-aroura allotment near Euhemeria they had leased for 500 artabas of wheat. They complain that he delayed collecting his rent, let the grain spoil on the threshing floor, and is now scheming to their disadvantage while the grain is held in the temple of Souchos. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in 222-221 BC.

In English machine translation

To Diophanes, strategos, from Onetor and Asklepiades and Mousaios. We submitted to you a petition in the name of the king against Lysandros, holder of 100 arouras, of the 4th hipparchy, stating that we had leased in year 26, which is indeed also the first year, his allotment (kleros) near Euhemeria in the division of Themistos for 500 artabas of wheat, and the contract of lease stipulated that he should collect the rents when the release was given, and […] although he had already received 130 artabas of wheat […] while we protested to him and [asked him] to [receive] the remainder, having paid what was due to the collectors, on the threshing floor he ruined […] the grain, which was clean, constantly putting it off for no short time; and now the grain, taken up by the crop-guards, is held (?) in the Soucheion at Euhemeria together with our surplus produce, and all this […] he acts with malice, so that when the time has passed he may register against us […], although the contract of lease […] [… lines lost …]

Year 26 being 'also the first' reflects the double regnal dating at the transition from Ptolemy III to Ptolemy IV. The 'release' (aphesis) is the official authorization to remove the harvest from the threshing floor.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Correspondence of Diophanes. Complaint from Onetor, & c.). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

Διοφάνει στρατηγῶι παρʼ Ὀνήτορος καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδου καὶ Μουσαίου. δόντων ἡμῶν σοι ἔντευξιν εἰς τὸ τοῦ βασιλέως ὄνομα κατὰ Λυσάνδρου ἑκατονταρούρου τῆς δ ἱππαρχίας, ὅτι μισθωσαμένων ἡμῶν ἐν τῶι κϛ ἔτει, ὃ δὴ καὶ πρῶτόν ἐστιν, τὸν κλῆρον αὐτοῦ τὸν ὄντα περὶ Εὐημέριαν τῆς Θεμίστου μερί…