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Petition to the strategos about four stolen donkeys TM 9093Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)19. Mai 193
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A petition from Samios son of Sarapion, a landowner and stock-breeder at the village of Neilopolis, to Artemidoros, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, reporting that four of his finest donkeys were stolen from his farmyard overnight. He asks that the report be registered so that he may search for and reclaim the animals. It was filed in May 193 under the short-lived emperor Pertinax.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To Artemidoros, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Samios son of Sarapion, grandson of Neilos, from the metropolis, landowner in the village of Neilopolis and stock-breeder in the same.
In the night of the 22nd to the 23rd of the present month Pachon, while the animals were somewhere (?) in our farmyard, there were carried off from them four donkeys, the finest ones, two white and the other two black. Therefore I submit this petition, asking that it be placed on record, while I search for them in whatever places I wish, so that, if I have the chance to find them, I may recover them, in order that I may be benefited and helped by you, my lord.
Farewell.
Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Publius Helvius Pertinax Augustus, Pachon 24 […]
[verso]
[…] I have signed.
The petition is dated by the reign of Pertinax, who had in fact been murdered in March 193; news of his death had evidently not yet reached or been acted on in the Fayum. Such petitions asked only for the report to be registered, preserving the owner's right to reclaim the property.
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.
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[r] Ἀρτεμιδώρωι στρατηγῶι Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Σαμίου Σαραπίωνος τοῦ Νείλου ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως γεουχοῦντος ἐν κώμῃ Νείλου πόλει καὶ κτηνοτρόφου ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ· νυκτὶ τῆς κβ εἰς τὴν κγ τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Παχών, κτηνῶν ὄντων που ἐν αὐλῇ ἡμετέρᾳ, ἐβαστάχθησαν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ὄνοι …