Letter of Criton to Plutarchus
A letter from Criton asking Plutarchus to settle accounts, in order that Criton might meet a demand to pay for some seed which had been sown upon a cleruchic holding.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 8213
Letter from Kriton to Ploutarchos about payment for seed and a debt TM 8213Mummy 18About 265 BC
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A letter from Kriton to Ploutarchos asking him to settle the balance he owes, so that Kriton can meet Nikaios' demand for payment for 33 artabas of seed sown on the cleruchic holding of Protagoras; Nikaios has threatened to seize Kriton's hay. Kriton sets out the account, leaving 41 drachmas 2 obols still due.
In English machine translation
Kriton to Ploutarchos, greeting. Nikaios came to me and demanded the price of the seed which he said he had sown in the holding of Protagoras for year 3, 33 artabas, and if not, he said he would seize my hay that is in the plain. If then we are going to behave towards one another in this way, it would be well. So you pay them the remainder which you still owe me. It was 72 drachmas; from this deduct the price of 40 artabas, 26 drachmas 4 obols, and […] which I received from you for Theodoros […] at Hiera Nesos, 4 drachmas; total 30 drachmas 4 obols, remainder 41 drachmas 2 obols, having received from Timarchos
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The papyrus was recovered from mummy cartonnage (Mummy 18), probably from the Hibeh necropolis. A kleros was a plot of land allotted to a military settler (cleruch).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Criton to Plutarchus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.hib.1.63
Κρίτων Πλουτάρχωι χαίρειν. παραγενόμενος πρὸς μὲ Νίκαιος ἀπῇτει τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ σπέρματος οὗ ἔφη ἐμβεβληκέναι εἰς τὸν Πρωταγόρου κλῆρον ἐτῶν γ ἀρταβῶν λγ, εἰ δὲ μὴ, ἔφη καθέξειν τὸν χόρτον μου τὸν ἐν τῶι πεδίωι. εἰ οὖν οὕτως πολιτευσόμεθα ἀλλήλοις καλῶς ἂν ἔχοι. σὺ οὖν διόρθωσαι αὐ…