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Opening of a petition from Priskos, son of Heraklous, of the village of Arsinoe, to Agathos Daimon, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. He reports an incident during the night before 2 Epeiph, apparently involving a threshing floor of vegetable produce, but the rest is lost. Arsinoite nome, around AD 203.
"Fatherless" (apatōr) marks a person of illegitimate or unregistered paternity, identified by his mother. The "vegetable" crop on a threshing floor is probably a seed crop such as vegetable-seed, and the opening numeral 73 is likely a filing number.
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.
ογ Ἀγαθῷ Δαίμονι στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοΐτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Πρίσκου ἀπάτορος μητρὸς Ἡρακλοῦτος ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀρσινόης. νυκτὶ τῇ φερούσῃ εἰς τὴν ἐνεστῶσαν ἡμέραν ἥτις ἐστὶν δευτέρα τοῦ ὄντος μηνὸς Ἐπεὶφ ἐν[…] …… ἁλωνίᾳ λαχάνου […] [… ? lines lost …]
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