Petition from Herieus to the strategos : copyHerieus, son of HarphaesisAPISberkeley.apis.1001(CU)1001p.tebt.3.1.7800206;3.1;780p.tebt;3.1;78053685368P.Tebt.0780Herieus petitions the strategos, requesting to have the plot he inherited from his father, but that was taken away by other people, returned to him. The text is a copy made on a roll containing similar copies of petitions.Recto and verso unpublished.Margins: left (to previous column), 1.8 cm.; right, 1 cm.; bottom, 7.5 cm.10th year of Ptolemy VI Philometor, 29th of the Egyptian month Pharmouthi.1246Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., BerkeleyGreek1 papyrus ; 30.9 x 13.6 cm.25 lines, on recto along the fibers.Also on recto: Remains of lines of a preceding column with another petition; on the verso few unidentified lines.
Regular cursive.
171 B.C.PsinteoPtolemaios
Mummy cartonnage at Tebtunis 29
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekInheritance and successionSonsFathersPsinteoPetitions, Ptolemaic Period
To Ptolemaios, a chief of the body-guard and strategos, from Herieus son of Harphaesis, a cultivator of Crown land, living a Psinteo. My father having died when I was still young, Thareus, a woman of Thebes, doing violence to me, and taking as her assistants Diotimos the agent of Demetrios the superintendent of the gift-estate, and Heliodoros the ..., in defiance of all right built a tower ten cubits high on the unoccupied plot which came to me from my father. But the ordinance declares "If any person build upon the land of another, let him be deprived of the building." And whereas Thareus has since died and a certain Petesouchos and his sister Kamous lay claim to her property, I request you to summon them and to inquire into this matter, and, if it be as I say, to compel them to leave the plot. If this is done, I shall receive relief by your means. To Apollonios. Bring them up. The 10th year, Pharmouthi 29.