Papyri.info

sign in

p.ryl.4.578 = HGV P.Ryl. 4 578 = Trismegistos 5298



open in editor
Canonical URI: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.ryl;4;578

HGV: P.Ryl. 4 578 [source] [xml]

Title Petition of a Jew
Publications P.Ryl. 4 578
More in series P.Ryl.More in series P.Ryl., vol. 4
C.Pap. Hengstl 151
C.Pap.Jud. I 43
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Translations TUAT, N.F. 1 (2004), VII 22
Origin Arsinoites
More from Arsinoites
Material Papyrus
Date 159 - 158 v.Chr.
More from the period between 159 BCE and 158 BCE
Commentary Zur Datierung vgl. BL III, S. 162.
Subjects Eingabe; Judas an den Epimeleten Zopyros; zu hohe Veranschlagung durch den Dorfschreiber; wahrscheinlich Zwangspacht; Land
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 5298 [source]

Publications P. Ryl. Gr. 4 578 (Roberts, Colin Henderson / Turner, Eric Gardner; 1952) = CPJ 1 43 (Tcherikover, Victor A. / ; 1957) = Hengstl, Griechische Papyri 151 (Hengstl, Joachim / ; 1978)
Inv. no. Manchester, John Rylands Library Gr. 578
Date BC 159 Oct 2 - 158 Oct 1 (P06 K2, year 23)
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00d - Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum)[find place & destination]; Egypt, 00a - Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza)[written]
People mentioned people
Places mentioned places

Citations

DDbDP transcription: p.ryl.4.578 [xml]

ca. 58 BC Arsinoite

⟦κη⟧ κθ
Ζωπύρωι ἐπιμελητῆι παρὰ
Ἰούδου τοῦ Δωσιθέου Ἰουδαίου· γεωργ-
οῦντός μου περὶ Φιλαδέλφειαν
χέρσου (ἀρούρας) γ τῶν προυπαρχόντων
5ἐκφορίων καθʼ(*) ἔτος τὴν (ἀρουρῶν) ἐκλογὴν
πυρῶν (ἀρτάβας) δ, ἣν καὶ μετὰ πολλῆς
κακοπαθίας καὶ δαπάνης κατειργασμένου
τά τε ἐκφόρια καθʼ(*) ἔτος ἀνεγκλήτως
ἀπευτακτηκότος μέχρι τοῦ κγ (ἔτους),
10νυνὶ Μαρρῆς ὁ κωμογραμματ̣ε̣ὺ̣ς̣
παρὰ τὸ καθῆκον ἀναγέγραφέν με
πλεῖον τῶν ἐκφορίων ἑκάστης̣(*) (ἀρούρας)
(πυρῶν ἀρτάβας) ε 𐅵, καθόλου̣ μὴ τετετελε-
κότος(*) μου· διὸ προσδεόμενος
15τῆς σῆς φιλανθρωπίας ἀξιῶ,
ἐὰν φαίνηται, γράψαι ὧι καθήκε̣[ι]
ἀνενέγκαι σοι τὰ τῆς ἀκριβεί[ας]
ὅπως ἐὰν ἦι οἷα γράφω̣ προνοηθῇς
ὡς οὐθὲν̣ π̣αρὰ τ̣ὸ δέον π̣ραχθήσομαι,
20[αὐτὸς δ]ὲ τύχω τοῦ δικαίου.
ε[ὐτύχει ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]

Apparatus


^ 5. l. κατʼ
^ 8. l. κατʼ
^ 12. corr. ex εκασ⟦ο⟧
^ 13-14. l. τετελε |κότος

Editorial History; All History; (detailed)

Creative Commons License © Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

HGV 5298 Translation (English) [xml]

1  ’29. To Zopyrus, epimeletes, from Judas son of Dositheus, Jew. I am farmer of 3 arourae of dry ground near Philadelphia at the preexisting rental and an annual special fee of 4 artabae of wheat per aroura. This I have effected with great distress and expense, and have completed the annual payments for rent satisfactorily up to the 23rd year. But now Marres the village scribe has entered me, contrary to what is right, for the amount of 5½ artabae of wheat per aroura over and above the amount of the rent, though I have never paid this sum. Therefore I appeal to your clemency and request you, if you will, to write to the proper authority for accurate details to be submitted to you, so that if the facts are as I state them, you may take care that I do not have to pay any improper exaction, and I myself may obtain my just rights. Farewell.’