Petition from Diodotos, Hesiodos and Argaios. Diodotos APIS berkeley.apis.1000 (CU)1000 p.tebt.3.1.779 0206;3.1;779 p.tebt;3.1;779 5367 5367 P.Tebt.0779 Three brothers petition the strategos about the encroachment of a plot of land that belongs to them. Margins: top, 2.9 cm.; left, 6 cm. 1245 Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Greek 1 papyrus ; 13 x 20.9 cm. To the left there is some lines of writing that have been washed off. 14 lines, on recto along the fibers. Verso empty.

Regular cursive.

 ca. 175 B.C. Berenikis Thesmophorou Hesiodos Argaios Ptolemaios

Mummy cartonnage at Tebtunis 14

 APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent. English Greek Land encroachment Berenikis Thesmophorou Petitions, Ptolemaic Period
To Ptolemaios, chief of the body-guard and strategos, from Diodotos and Hesiodos and Argaios, Thracians, inhabiting Berenikis Thesmophorou. We presented to you a petition in the 6th year against N.N. because of his design perforce to build over the unoccupied plot at the said village bequeathed by our father for us to inhabit; this the people of Diodotos observed and sent a notification to Aristodemos, who was posted on the spot, so that he might order the accused to present himself before you. He came by night with ... and brought builders to the plot and built a wall against our tower ... (Here the papyrus breaks off.)
P.Tebt., III.779 P.Tebt.:3.1:779

Original record.