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Petition of the weavers of Philadelphia for exemption from liturgies TM 9480Philadelphia (Arsinoites)17. Dez. 139

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Petition from the weavers of Philadelphia in the Fayum to Dion, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Having been paid in advance to make public clothing, and having lost four of their twelve members to a service in Alexandria, they ask to be exempted from other compulsory services so they can complete this and an upcoming clothing order. Dated 17 December AD 139.

In English machine translation

To Dion, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from the weavers of the village of Philadelphia. Since we recently received from the public bank […] drachmas of silver, so that we might manufacture public clothing […] being […] from the work, men […] having […] to complete what was ordered […] of these, four were given for […] on account of the service they were taken away from us and went to Alexandria, and still more […] we became, we have of necessity fled to you for refuge and ask, if it seems good to you, to allow that we who are left of the craft be left undisturbed from all services, so that we may finish and deliver the clothing contracted out […], especially since another contract for public clothing is imminent for us, which again we will have to complete, so that we may have received benefaction. Formerly we were twelve men, of whom four were dragged away, so that now we are eight men. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, month of Hadrianos 20.

Hadrianos was an honorific month name used in the Roman period, corresponding to Choiak. The 'public clothing' was cloth ordered by the state, probably for the army.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe der Webergilde von Philadelphia 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 · 17. Dez. 139 · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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