DDbDP transcription: p.oxy.1.131 [xml]
VI/VII spc Oxyrhynchus
Σουσνεῦ ἐλεεινοῦ ὑ(*)μετέρ[ου δ]ούλου ἀπὸ Πάτανι. διδάσκω
τὸν ἐμὸν ἀγαθὸν δεσπ(ότην) τὸ κατ̣ʼ [ἐ]μ̣ὲ πρᾶγμ[α], τοῦτον ἔ̣χ̣οντα τὸν
τρόπον. ἡνίκα ἔζη ὁ πατὴρ μου ἐκάλεσεν ἐμὲ καὶ τοὺς
5ἀδελφοὺς ἐμοῦ, λέγων ὅτ[ι] κ̣ρ̣ατή̣σῃ εἷς ἐξ ὑ(*)μῶν τὴν
οὐσίαν τῆς μητρὸς ὑμῶν Ἰ(*)ω[ ̣ ̣]ρ̣αφη, καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας μου
τρέφονται· καὶ ἐπῆρεν Δαυεὶτ τὸν μικρότερόν μου
ἀδελφόν, καὶ δέδωκεν εἰς τὴν κτῆσιν τῆς μητρός μου.
καὶ μέλλων τελευτᾶν ὁ πατήρ μου ἐκέλευσεν δοθῆναι
10αὐτῷ τῷ Δαυεὶτ ἐκ τῆς αὑτοῦ [ο]ὐσίας ἡμιαρούριον, λέγων
ὅτι ἀρκεῖ αὐτῷ τὸ ἡμιαρούριον διότι καὶ τὴν κτῆσιν τῆς
μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ἔχει. καὶ ἰδοὺ τρία ἔτη σήμερον ἀπʼ(*) ὅτε ἀπέθανεν,
ἅμα δὲ ἀπέθανεν παρεγενάμην πρὸς Ἀβραάμιον τὸν
μείζονα Κλαυδιανοῦ, καὶ παρήνεγκεν τοὺς μάρτυρας το[ὺ]ς
15εὑρεθέντας ἐπάνω τοῦ πατρός μου, τοῦτʼ ἔστιν, Ἰ(*)ούλιον τὸν πρεσβ(ύτερον)
καὶ Ἀπολλών, κα[ὶ] πρ[ὸ]ς τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ πατρός μου ἐποίησεν
γενέσθαι· καὶ καθʼ ἐνιαυτ̣ὸ̣ν σπείρω τὴν οὐσίαν μου, καὶ
Δαυεὶτ ὁ ἀδελφός μου σπείρει τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς μητρὸς μου καὶ
τὸ ἡμιαρούριον αὐτοῦ. καὶ σήμερον Ἀβραάμιος ὁ πορδουλεσθεὶς
20παρὰ τοῦ αὐτ[ο]ῦ Δαυεὶτ ἐφύλαξέν με λέγων ὡς ἐὰν μὴ λάβῃ
ὁ ἀδελφός μου τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς μητρὸς παρὰ μίαν καὶ τὸ ἡμιαρούριον
ὃ δέδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ πατήρ μου, καὶ πάλιν μερισθηναι(*) εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ
αὐτὸν ὅσα κατέλειψέν μοι ὁ πατήρ μου· δέδωκεν δὲ τῇ μητρί μου
ὁ πατήρ μου ρι νο(μίσματα) ἵ(*)να μερίσηται εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ τοὺ[ς] ἀδελφούς μου,
25καὶ ταῦτα δέδωκεν Ἐλισάβετ τῇ μειζοτέρᾳ μου ἀδελφῇ. καὶ παρακαλ(ῶ)
τὸ[ν] ἐμὸν ἀγαθ[ὸ]ν δεσπ[ό(την)] παρασκευσάσαι(*) πρὸς ὃ εἶπεν ὁ πατήρ μου
φυλαχθῆναί μοι τὸ δίκαιον. †
Editorial History; All History; (detailed)
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HGV 37142 Translation (English) [xml]
(Translation: from P.Oxy. 1) To my kind lord next to God, entreaty and supplication, from me, Sousneus, your miserable slave, of Patani. I beg to inform my kind lord of my case, which is as follows. When my father was alive, he summoned me and my brothers and sisters and said, “One of you shall possess the land of your mother Jo...aphe, while the others get their livelihood from my land”; and he raised up David my younger brother and assigned to him the estate of my mother. And when he was on the point of death my father ordered David to be given half an aroura out of his own land, saying that that was enough for him, since he had his mother’s estate. And lo, it is to-day three years since he died. Immediately after his death I went to Abraham, the overseer of Claudianus, and he brought the witnesses who were appointed to act for my father, that is, Julius the elder and Apollos. And he caused everything to be done in accordance with the word of my father; and year by year I sowed my land and David my brother sowed the land of my mother and his own half-aroura. But today Abraham suborned (?) by this David lay in wait for me, and said that my brother must have for himself my mother’s land and the half-aroura which my father gave him, and that all that my father left me must be divided again between himself and me. Now my father gave to my mother 110 solidi to divide between me and my brothers and sisters, and this she gave to Elizabeth my elder sister. And I beseech my kind lord to see that my rights are maintained in accordance with my father’s word.