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Petition against Nestnephis concerning plots and a charge of theft TM 9919Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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Fragmentary petition from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome. The petitioner complains that a certain Nestnephis claimed and demanded the price of some plots, intimidated him and tried to drive him off the property, and asks that a copy of his complaint be served on Nestnephis, reserving his own claim against a third party over the guarantee of the plots.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] […] more thievishly (?) […] […] […] petition […] to you […] […] [having] laid claim and demanded payment of the price of the plots […] thinking […] and having intimidated (me) [to keep me] from setting foot […] on this (property) and to drive me out together with my belongings […] being unable to keep quiet, I am compelled to come forward [by this petition and] I ask that, my memorandum being registered, [a copy] be delivered to Nestnephis, so that he may know that it will be of no profit to him […] being liable […] those things that have proceeded against him […] [and] for the charge of theft, so that he may receive the fitting [rebuke for the written matters] which he dared to search out, while my right of [execution against the prophet Chairemon] remains reserved concerning the guarantee of the plots. […] [Year 1 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus] […] [Fragment] [… lines lost …] […] […] [… lines lost …]

The date and the name of the prophet Chairemon rest on editorial restoration. The guarantee (bebaiosis) is the seller's legal obligation to defend the buyer's title to property.

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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