Official letter : draftAPISberkeley.apis.959(CU)959p.tebt.3.1.7330206;3.1;733p.tebt;3.1;73353365336P.Tebt.0733Draft of an official letter in which the writer reports of a notification of theft received by him.Recto described.28th year of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes IIWritten by the same hand as P.Tebt.732 and 734.1001Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., BerkeleyGreek1 papyrus ; 28.8 x 24.2 cm.17 lines, on verso across the fibers.On recto: Petition (P.Tebt.956)143/142 B.C.ApolloniosMestasutmisEudaimonDemetriosApollonios
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APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekThievesHerakleopolites nomosBusiness letters, Ptolemaic Period
To Apollonios, epimeletes. [ � I have received a complaint from N.N.] the contractor for the distribution of � at the said village for the 28th year, in which he states that on Hathur 16 Mestasutmis his stepson, when visiting the receptacles at the village on account of the � near them with Eudaimon the guard, found that a certain Demetrios from the Herakleopolite nome had stolen two cloaks and a tunic, which he forcibly carried off with him in the presence of Diophantos the agent of Orsenouphis and Apollonios, guard. Since, therefore, owing to the � of certain people, it happens that the contractors are in arrears ... (Here the papyrus breaks off.)