Petition [218-225 AD]Claudia Isidora a.k.a. Apia, landholderAPIScolumbia.apis.p309(NNC)aaa1233p.col.10.2760094;10;276p.col;10;2762227122271Col.inv. 473Petition to the strategos from Claudia Isidora who complains about the unauthorized cutting of mature sycamore trees by one Aurelia Sarapous and her partner Eirenaios, who had contracted to cut down other young plantsWritten along the fibers; the back is blank18 lines of writing by a medium-sized hand, written quicklyDated on the basis of other papyri relating to Claudia Isidora, a well-known landowner of considerable wealthIn Greek1papyrus, broken on the bottom ; 13.5 x 13.5 cm218 CE – 225 CE
Purchased by Columbia University from M. Nahman through H.I. Bell, in 1926-1927; no. 23 in Bell's inventory
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishIn GreekAurelius Harpokration, -- strategosPetition to the strategos; cutting down treesPapyri
To Aurelius Har[pokration, strategos of the] Oxyrhynchite (nome).
From Aurelius [ ]ion the secretary of Claudia Isidora alias Apia, and however she may be called. Aurelia Sarapous daughter of Didymos, granddaughter of Petosorapis . . . having given (money?) for the purchase of plants which are in the kleros called Tmo near Nemera, belonging to the lady, past the sycamore trees near the water wheel, and having taken Eirenaios to herself as a partner, . . . not only did they cut down the plants which had been assigned (to Sarapous), but also the very sycamore trees near the water wheel, mature trees, nine in number. So that the quality of the improperly cut down sycamore trees be made clear, so that the right against them with respect to . . . (?) remain with the lady, out of necessity, I am making submission of this petition asking that you send . . . .