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Title Petition to the Komogrammateus
Publications P.Tebt. 1 48
More in series P.Tebt.More in series P.Tebt., vol. 1
W.Chr. 409
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries VIII 489; XI 271
Translations White, Ancient Letters (1986), 50
Origin Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites)
More from Kerkeosiris (Arsinoites)
Material Papyrus
Date ca. 118 - 112 v.Chr.
More from the period between 118 BCE and 112 BCE
Commentary Tage: 3. - 10. Pachon. Zur Datierung vgl. BL XI, S. 271.
Subjects Eingabe; Menches (Dorfschreiber); Anschlag; Sammlung; kgl. Besuch
Images https://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/apis/apis2?apisid=367&ite...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 3684 [source]

Publications P. Tebt. 1 48 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S. / Smyly, J. Gilbart; 1902) = Chrest. Wilck. 409 (Wilcken, Ulrich / / ; 1912) = White, Light from ancient letters 50 (White, John Lee / / ; 1986)
Inv. no. Berkeley, Bancroft Library Crocodile 7.1
Date BC 118 - 112 about ((P08?), year 53?, Pachons 04 after)
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.367 [xml]

Title Petition from Horos and the elders of the farmers : to Menches
Author Horos
Summary Horos, Komarches of Kerkeosiris, and the elders of the farmers complain to the village scribe Menches about an attack upon them.
Citations P.Tebt., I.48. Chrest. Wilck., no. 409. White, L. Light from Ancient Letters, no. 50. [For date see BL v. 8, p. 489]
P.Tebt.:1:48
Inv. Id P.Tebt.0048
Material Papyri
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 19.1 x 10 cm.
Lines 32 lines, on recto along the fibers.
Recto/Verso Verso empty.
Hands Small regular cursive, densely written.
Origin Kerkeosiris
More from Kerkeosiris
Language Greek
Date 117 or 113 B.C.
More from the period between 117 BCE and 113 BCE
Note (general) Margins: top, 2 cm,; left, 1.5 cm.; in top margin, in red ink, "48"
Note (general) Menches archive
Note (local/note) 2472
Note (local/note) Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Subjects Assault and battery Tax collection; Kerkeosiris; Petitions, Ptolemaic period
Associated Names Menches; Polemon; Lykos
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

DDbDP transcription: p.tebt.1.48 [xml]

117 BC? Tebtynis
[Reprinted from: chr.wilck.409] WChr409

Μεγχεῖ κωμογραμματεῖ
Κερκεοσίρεως
παρὰ Ὥρου κωμάρχου καὶ τ[ῶν]
πρεσβυτέρων τῶν γεω(ργῶν) τῆς αὐτῆς.
5κεχειρογραφηκότων ἡμῶν
Πολέμωνι τῶι τοπάρχηι
περὶ τοῦ παραδώσειν εἰς [τὸ]
βασιλικὸν ἕως ι τοῦ Παχὼν
πυροῦ (ἀρτάβας) Αφ περὶ ὧν καὶ προσ-
10εδρευόντων διά τε νυκτὸς
καὶ ἡμέρας μέχρι τοῦ τὸ προκεί-
μενον ἐκπληρῶσαι καὶ τὴν ἐπι-
γεγραμμένην πρὸς τὴν τοῦ βασι-
λέως παρουσίαν ἀγορὰν (πυροῦ) (ἀρταβῶν) π,
15τῆι δὲ γ τοῦ ὑποκειμένου μηνὸς
ὄντων πρὸς τῆι παραδόσει
τῶν ἐκφορίων καὶ τοῦ ἁλοητοῦ
ἐπελθων(*) ἐπὶ τὴν ἅλω Λύκος(*)
σὺν ἄλλοις ἐν ὅπλοις καὶ σπασαμένων
20τὰς μαχαίρας ἐπιλαβομένων τοῦ
ἑν̣ὸ̣ς̣ ἡμ̣ῶν Ὥρου κωμάρχου καὶ
τούτου ἀγωγὴν̣ μετὰ σκυλμοῦ
ποιουμένων ῥίψαντα τὸ ἱμάτιον
εἰς φυγὴν ὁρμῆσαι, καὶ ἡμᾶς τε
25σὺν τοῖς λοιποῖς γεωργοῖς ὑπόπτως
σχόντας συνδεδραμηκέναι,
διὰ δὲ ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν ἐμπο-
δισθῆναι ἐν τοῖς κατὰ τὴν παρά-
δοσιν τῶν ἐκφορίων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων
30ἐπιγεγραμμένων. τῆι δὲ δ
συμψήσαντες τὸν Λύκον κ[αὶ]
[τοὺς σὺν αὐ]τῶι ἐπὶ τ̣[ὸν]   ̣[  ̣  ̣  ̣]
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^ 18. l. ἐπελθόντος
^ 18. l. Λύκου

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APIS Translation (English)

To Menches, komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris, from Horos, komarches, and the elders of the cultivators of the said village. We signed an undertaking to Polemon the toparches that we would supply to the treasury by the 10th of Pachon 1500 artabas of wheat, and we have been working night and day to make up the aforesaid amount and also the 80 artabas of wheat for the supplies imposed in connection with the king's visit. On the 3rd of the month mentioned below while we were engaged in the receipt of the rents and the threshing expenses, Lykos proceeded to the threshing-floor with other persons armed, and drawing their swords they seized one of us, Horos the komarches, making a violent attempt to carry him off, so that he threw away his garment and took to flight, and we together with the rest of the cultivators having had our suspicions aroused ran off with him; for which reason we were hindered with regard to the receipt of the rents and other imposts. On the 4th we forced Lykos and hi companions to appear before the � (Here the papyrus breaks off)