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Petition of the priest Teseapis about a robbed storeroom TM 9439Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)29. Jan. 107

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A petition from Teseapis, a priest of Soknopaiou Nesos, to the strategos Lokretios Kerialis complaining that after his wife's death her relatives, Apynchis and his wife Thenapynchis, had the village locksmith open his storeroom in his father-in-law's house and stole money, priestly rings, cups and clothing. He asks that they be brought before the strategos. Dated 29 January AD 107.

In English machine translation

To Lokretios Kerialis, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, from Teseapis the younger, son of Teseapis son of Panephremmis, priest, from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos of the same division. On the 27th of the past month Tybi of the present 10th year of the Emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, my wife Segathis daughter of Stotoetis died, while I had a storeroom secured in the house of her father, whose [contents] (?) are all as follows: 1,585 drachmas of silver and [...] drachmas of bronze coin, and a linen robe, and two silver priestly rings, and three tin cups, and a bronze cup, and [...] and [...] in small jewel boxes (?) [...] and 14 staters and a coloured robe [and all the other] things that were in the storeroom [...] of the brother [...] Apynchis and his wife Thenapynchis, who is my wife's sister, having come together, although I had long had my own key to the storeroom, without my knowledge [opened] (?) my storeroom by means of the village locksmith and plundered all that I have in the storeroom and the items listed above. Therefore I ask that they be brought before you, so that I may obtain justice from you. I, Teseapis, have submitted the complaint as stated above. Year 10 of the Emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Mecheir 4.

The word kella (Latin cella) denotes a storeroom or chamber. The verb describing the opening of the storeroom is damaged and restored only by sense.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an den Strategen). 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 · 29. Jan. 107 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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