Petition to a Subordinate of the Dioiketes
(Draft/Copy of a) Petition addressed to an agent of the dioiketes by Peteminis alias Ptolemaios, who requests help to capture an oikonomos who has disappeared after extorting some money from him
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Petition to Ornymenes for the arrest of the oikonomos Pythion TM 8773Mouchis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt192 B.C.
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Draft or copy of a petition from Peteminis of Mouchis to Ornymenes, an agent of the dioiketes, complaining that Pythion, oikonomos of the Polemon division, had extorted 4,000 drachmas from him and was now evading justice. He asks for an order to the police to arrest Pythion or else seal his house. Arsinoite nome, 192 BC.
In English machine translation
To Ornymenes, from Peteminis, one of those from Mouchis in the meris of Polemon. I submitted a petition to Athenodoros the dioiketes against Pythion, who acts as oikonomos of the same meris, concerning 4,000 drachmas which he had exacted from me and [...] (?) ... at the rate of 5 talents 2,300 (?), and when the memorandum was sent on to you, you wrote to Philon to deliver him up to you. ⟦When he had been delivered⟧ ⟦...⟧ Since, then, the man is evading giving me justice, I ask you, if it seems good to you, to write for me an order to the guards (phylakitai) so that wherever he is found he may be delivered up to you; and if not, [...] to have his house shut up.
The deletions and corrections suggest a draft. The oikonomos was a financial administrator of a district, and the phylakitai were local police guards.
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 a Subordinate of the Dioiketes). 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.mich.18.779
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