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Petition of Theanous against Petronius over an olive grove at Karanis TM 9037Karanis (Arsinoites)
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Petition from Theanous, daughter of Petesouchos, of Karanis in the Fayum, to the epistrategos Aquilius Capitolinus. She complains that Petronius son of Noumenios, taking advantage of her as a woman without a protector, keeps trying to seize the harvest of her half-aroura olive grove, claiming he bought it from the state.
In English machine translation
To Aquilius Capitolinus, the most excellent epistrategos,
from Theanous daughter of Petesouchos, from the village of Karanis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome.
I own, lord, in the plain of Psenarpsenesis, half an aroura of olive grove. But a certain Petronius son of Noumenios, despising me as a woman without support, attacks me at every turn, wishing to seize the crops lying on it, claiming that he has bought it from the public treasury, although it has never been registered as confiscated property [...]
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The verb 'genematographein' refers to the official registration of the produce of confiscated property; Theanous argues the grove was never so registered, so the state could not have sold it. The end of the petition, including 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. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
chrest.wilck.364
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