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Petition about swineherds who fed a farmer's wheat sheaves to their pigs TM 9331Arsinoites

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A petition to the strategos Valerius Varus from Herakles (or Herakleides), son of Kozinthos, a public farmer of Autodike in the Arsinoite nome. He complains that on Pauni 13 of year 41 of Augustus two swineherds let their pigs onto the public land he farmed and took 13 wheat sheaves to feed the animals, among other outrages.

In English machine translation

To Valerius Varus, strategos, from Herakleides (?) son of Kozinthos, one of the public farmers from Autodike. On the 13th of Pauni of the 41st year of Caesar, Orsenouphis and Papos, swineherds of Akoutas, let loose the pigs they tend onto the public plots which I farm around the village, and from the wheat sheaves stacked in heaps on them they carried off 13 sheaves and threw them to their own pigs, [and] committing other outrages […] [not] less on the […] I am […] […]

The petitioner's name is written in the genitive Herakleous, which could be from Herakles or a contracted Herakleides. The end of the petition, with 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites

Οὐαλερίωι Οὐάρωι στρατηγῶι παρὰ Ἡρακλείους τοῦ Κοζίνθου τῶν ἀπὸ Αὐτοδίκης δημοσίων γεωργῶν. τῆι ιγ τοῦ Παῦνι τοῦ μα ἔτους Καίσαρος Ὀρσενοῦφις καὶ Πάπος ὑοφορβοὶ Ἀκουτᾶτος ἐπαφέντες ἃ βόσκουσιν ὑικὰ κτήνη ἐφʼ ἃ γεωργῶ περὶ τὴν κώμην δημόσια ἐδάφη καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τούτοις τεθηκοποιημ…