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Petition of a veteran accusing his daughter Longinia of ingratitude TM 9486Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A petition by an honourably discharged veteran from Philadelphia in the Fayum to the iuridicus, who was acting for the prefect of Egypt, accusing his daughter Longinia of ingratitude. He says he provided her a dowry of jewellery, silver and clothing when she married, but instead of supporting him in old age she has defied his authority and withheld property, and he asks for a hearing against her.

In English machine translation

[… 2 lines lost …] […] according to the […] [… 1 line lost …] […] to the most excellent iuridicus, also administering the prefecture, […] of those honourably discharged. Since a most sacred general edict [orders …] the […], my lord, that those who accuse their children of ingratitude should petition the prefecture […] […] coming before the sacred tribunal, I declare the impious acts dared against me by my daughter Longinia […]; for while she was under my authority according to the law, I […] to be […] by my aforementioned daughter, who at the beginning behaved well and properly toward me, I gave her on her marriage to a husband all that I happened to have in the […] both jewellery and silver and clothing and other possessions in the […] […] that she therefore, remembering everything she had from me, […] should have supported me in my old age. But she, perhaps being uneducated […] and vexed at being under my authority, [committing] every outrage […] having forgotten the hope which with toil […] I provided her […] […] to provide me with all my things […] of my house, and so that this may not succeed for her […], as you know, of the things [given] by me […] and of those acquired by her, withholding them from me […] I ask, if it seems good to you, to hear me against her […] so that I may obtain the help that is due, and be […]. Farewell. […] Tybi 17 […] […]

The petition invokes a general edict allowing parents to charge their children with ingratitude before the prefect. The iuridicus (dikaiodotes) was a Roman judicial official, here temporarily administering the prefecture.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe eines Veteranen an den Stellvertreter des Praefectus Aegypti, mit Klage gegen seine Tochter). 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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bgu.7.1578

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

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