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Petition of royal sifters about an assault on a threshing floor TM 754294Oxyrhyncha (Arsinoites)Mitte II v.Chr. (?)

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Petition from the royal grain sifters of Oxyrhyncha in the Arsinoite nome to the strategos Polyidos. They complain that a soldier, Atarrias son of Ptolemaios, burst onto the cavalry threshing floor while they were winnowing a cavalry settler's crop, beat them and smashed their tools. Probably mid-2nd century BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Polyidos, one of the chief bodyguards and strategos, from the royal sifters from Oxyrhyncha in the division of Polemon. While we have been performing the royal services diligently, zealously and blamelessly, for the sesame, the grain crops and the other produce, on the 13th of the present month, as we were winnowing on the cavalry threshing floor, with the consent of the collector and the customary officials, the crops of Demetrios, one of the cavalry settlers, Atarrias son of Ptolemaios, one of the soldiers, came onto the threshing floor and, behaving in no orderly manner, dealt us many blows, and smashing all the farming tools he made them useless; these we have in fact handed over to the epistates of the village and, having sealed them […] […] [verso] […] to Apollonios

Koskineutai were workers who sieved and cleaned grain for the royal administration; 'chief bodyguard' is a Ptolemaic court rank title. The end of the petition, with the request, is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe von Koskineutai an den Strategen). 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.16.651

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

[r] Πολυίδωι ἀρχισωματοφύλακι καὶ στρατηγῶι παρὰ τῶν ἐξ Ὀξυρύγχων τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος βασιλικῶν κοσκινευτῶν. παρεχομένων ἡμῶν τὰς βασιλικὰς χρείας ἐκτενῶς καὶ προθύμως καὶ ἀνεγκλήτως τοῦ τε σησάμου καὶ τῶν σιτικῶν γενημάτων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων, τῆι δὲ ιγ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς ἐγλικμώντ…