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Petition of priests about withheld bread and grain allowances TM 9903Soknopaiu Nesos? (Arsinoites)28. Dez. 17

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Fragmentary petition, apparently by priests, complaining that a man had failed to supply the customary monthly bread and grain allowances to the priesthood, handing over soaked loaves and substituting other goods or cash. The petitioners ask for action and reserve other complaints against him and his partners. Dated 28 December AD 17, probably from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] […]piphk[…]aros […] annual koiphi(?) […] […] […] [… of the …]siac(?) loaves, ten loaves, only three loaves […] seven loaves per man, the grain allowance falling due in the current [4th year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus] […] in the […] month of the current 4th year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, wheat(?) […] having brought out soaked (loaves?), he handed over […] being dried and having exchanged the wheat for other […] the customary (allowances?) they distributed to the body of priests […] and instead of the artabas customarily given each month to the body of the priests […] [… for each] artaba two drachmas. For this reason we ask that provision be made so that each of them […] collected […] he will be compelled (to pay) all that is established in it to the private account (idios logos) […] before […] so that we may receive help. Concerning other matters which we have against him and his partners, we shall later come [before your authority] […] Year 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, Tybi 2.

The beginning, including the addressee and petitioners' names, is lost. The idios logos was the Roman special account that received confiscations and fines.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petizione). 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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cpr.15.17

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 28. Dez. 17 · Soknopaiu Nesos? (Arsinoites)

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