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Title Petition to the Komogrammateus
Publications P.Tebt. 1 45
More in series P.Tebt.More in series P.Tebt., vol. 1
M.Chr. 40
Inv. Id Crocodile 12.3
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries XI 271
Origin Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites, Ägypten)
More from Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites, Ägypten)
Material Papyrus
Date nach 23. Aug. 113 v.Chr.
More from the period after 113 BCE
Mentioned Dates
  • Z. 12:114 - 113 v.Chr.
Subjects Eingabe; kgl. Bauer an Menches (Dorfschreiber); Beschädigungen; Eigentum; Bande
Images https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/231597...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 3681 [source]

Publications P. Tebt. 1 45 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S. / Smyly, J. Gilbart; 1902) = Chrest. Mitt. 40 (Mitteis, Ludwig / / ; 1912)
Inv. no. Berkeley, Bancroft Library Crocodile 12.3
Date BC 113 Aug 23 after ((P09) K3, year 04, Mesore 08)
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00c - Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat)[found]; Egypt, 00c - Kerkeosiris[place of writing & destination]
Archive Village scribes of Kerkeosiris (Menches)
People mentioned people
Places mentioned places

Catalog Record: berkeley.apis.312 [xml]

Title Petition of Demas
Author Demas, son of Semtheus
Summary Petition from Demas to Menches, the village scribe, complaining of a raid on his home by a band of marauders, headed by Pyrrhichus, son of Dionysios, and reporting which items were stolen on the occasion.
Citations P.Tebt., I.45; Chrest. Mitt., no. 40 [On lines 3 and 18 see P. L. Bat. 29, p. 189]
P.Tebt.:1:45
Inv. Id P.Tebt.0045
Material Papyri
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 30.6 x 7.4 cm.
Preservation Inside label is upside down
Lines 41 lines written on recto along the fibers.
Recto/Verso On verso, along the fibers, address
Hands Small regular cursive.
Origin Kerkeosiris
More from Kerkeosiris
Language Greek
Date 113 B.C.
More from the period between 113 BCE and 112 BCE
Note (general) Verso published
Note (general) Margins: top, 2.7 cm.; left, 1.4 cm.; bottom, 3.3 cm.; in bottom left corner, in red ink "45".
Note (general) Menches archive
Note (related) The same raid is the subject of P.Tebt.46, P.Tebt.47, P.Tebt.1095, and P.Tebt.1096.
Note (local/note) 1659
Note (local/note) Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Subjects Burglary; Kerkeosiris; Petitions, Ptolemaic period
Associated Names Menches; Pyrrichos, son of Dionysios; Herakleios son of Poseidippos
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

DDbDP transcription: p.tebt.1.45 [xml]

113 BC Tebtynis
[Reprinted from: chr.mitt.40] MChr40

r
Μεγχεῖ κωμογ[ραμματεῖ]
Κερκεοσίρεως
παρὰ Δημᾶτος τοῦ Σεύθο[υ]
βασιλικοῦ γεωργοῦ καὶ
5ὑπηρέτου γεωργῶν
τῶν ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς. τῆι η
τοῦ Μεσορὴ τοῦ δ (ἔτους) ὄντος
μου σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις γεωργοῖς
πρὸς τῆι πρακτ[ορείαι]
10τῶν ἐνοφειλομένω[ν]
πρὸς τὴν μίσθωσιν
τοῦ αὐτοῦ (ἔτους), παραγενό-
μενοι εἰς τὴν κώμην
Πύρριχος Διονυσίου τῶ[ν κα(τοίκων) ἱπ(πέων)]
15καὶ Ἡράκλειος Ποσει[δίππου]
τῶν ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς σὺν
ἄλλοις πλείστοις ἐν μαχαίραις
καὶ ἐλθόντες ἐπὶ τὴν
ὑπάρχουσάν μοι οἰκίαν
20οὐδενὶ κόσμωι χρησά-
μενοι συντρίψαντες
τὴν παρόδιον θύραν
γενόμενοι ἔνδον ἀπη-
νέγκαντο τὰ ὑπογε-
25γραμμένα, οὐθενὸς ἁπλῶς
ὄντος μοι πρὸς αὐτοὺς(*).
διὸ ἐπιδίδωμί σοι ὅπως
περὶ ἑκάστων ὑπογραφὴν
ποιήσηι προσυποτάξαντα(*)
30καὶ τοῦ ὑπομνή(ματος) ἀντίγραφον
οἷς καθήκει, ἵνα τῶν ἐγκαλου-
μένων κατασταθέντων
ἐγὼ μὲν κομίσωμαι τὰ
ἐμαυτοῦ αὐτοὶ δὲ τύχωσι τῆς
35ἁρμοζούσης ἐπ̣ι̣πλήξεως.
——
εὐτύχει.
θύρας μυρικίν(ας) β,
ὑποπόδιον,
σκαφεῖον,
40χαλκοῦ (δραχμὰς) ψ,
σκοίκιον χαλκοῦν. v
κω(μογραμματεῖ).

Apparatus


^ r.26. corr. ex αυτον
^ r.29. l. προσυποτάξας

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APIS Translation (English)

To Menches, komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris, from Demas son of Sentheus, cultivator of Crown land and assistant for the cultivators of the said village. On the 8th of Mesore in the 4th year while I was engaged with the said cultivators in the collection of the sums owing for the leases of the same year, Pyrrhichos son of Dionysios, one of the katoikoi hippeis, and Herakleios son of Poseidippos, an inhabitant of the said village, proceeded thither with many other persons armed with swords. They went to my house and throwing off all restraint knocked down the street door, and having gained an entrance they carried off the articles mentioned below, although there was no dispute whatever between me and them. I therefore present to you this statement in order that you may subscribe to my statements and further forward a copy of the petition to the proper officials, so that the accused having been produced I may recover my property and they may receive the punishment which they deserve. Farewell. Two doors of tamarisk-wood; a footstool a hoe 700 drachmas of copper; and a bronze �