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A petition to King Ptolemy (III Euergetes) from Antigonos, complaining that Patron, police official of the lower toparchy, released from the prison at Sinary the Cyrenean Kallidromos, whom Antigonos had jailed on the epistates Dorion's order to make him return a donkey or pay its value of 20 drachmas. Antigonos asks that the praktor Xenokrates be instructed to exact the money, threefold under the regulations, from Patron.
A companion letter from Antigonos to the epistates Dorion on the same affair survives as P.Hib. I 73. The verb phylakiteuein means serving as a police official (phylakites).
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 King). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
A petition to Ptolemy (Euergetes) from Antigonus, probably a phylacites, complaining that Patron, the archiphylacites of the lower toparchy of the Oxyrhynchite nome, had prevented him from carrying out his duties, and asking for redress. P.Hibeh.I.073 is a letter from Antigonus …
[FrA-B] βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν. Ἀντίγονος ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Πάτρωνος τοῦ φυλακιτεύοντος τὴν κάτω τοπαρχίαν. ἐμοῦ γὰρ ἀπαγαγόντος Καλλίδρομον Καλλικράτους Κυρηναῖον τῆς ἐπιγονῆς τοῦ δ ἔτους μηνὸς Μεχὶρ κε εἰς τὸ ἐν Σινάρυ δεσμωτήριον κατὰ πρόσταγμα Δωρίωνος τοῦ ἐπιστάτου[…] ἐν ὧι …
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