Petition about forcible eviction from part of a house courtyard TM 78481unbekanntIII v.Chr.

The end of a petition from the 3rd century BC in which the writer complains that a man who had leased out the upper parts of a house moved into rooms in the courtyard, built a staircase into a neighbouring house, sold off the petitioner's property to another Egyptian for gain, and forcibly expelled the petitioner from his parts of the courtyard. The petitioner asks the official to summon the man, investigate, and force him to vacate.

In English machine translation

The opening, including the names of the petitioner, the accused and the official addressed, is lost. The verb rendered 'selling off' (propinon, literally 'pledging away in a toast') is used figuratively for squandering or betraying property.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as keiner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.