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A petition from Zenon to King Ptolemy complaining that Herakleides, to whom he had given 400 drachmas in gold so that Herakleides could pay 400 copper drachmas to the treasury on his behalf, refuses to return the gold even though Zenon has offered the copper. Zenon asks the king to have the strategos Agenor summon Herakleides and compel him to settle. It comes from the Arsinoite nome, around 243 BC.
Gold and copper drachmas were exchanged at different values; the arrangement was a temporary swap in which Herakleides paid the tax in copper and was to return the gold once reimbursed in copper. Year 3 is a regnal year of Ptolemy III.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition from Zenon to the king). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Zenon complains about a certain Herakleides to whom he had given 400 drachmae in gold to pay to the Treasury on his behalf 400 drachmae in copper, on condition that when Herakleides received the copper he would repay the gold. But though Zenon had been offering him the copper an…
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Ζήνων. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ἡρακλείδου· δόντος γάρ μου αὐτῶι ἐν τῶι γ ἔτει διὰ Δημέου χρυσίου δραχμὰς υ, ὅπως διαγράψῃ ὑπέρ μου εἰς τὸ βασιλικὸν χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς υ, ἐφʼ ὧι κομισάμενος παρά μου ἀποδώσει μοι, καὶ ἐμοῦ ἀποδιδόντος αὐτῶι καὶ ἀπαιτοῦντος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἀπ…
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