Petition from Marres to Ptolemaios
Marres, son of Marseisouchos
APIS
berkeley.apis.471
(CU)471
p.tebt.1.42
0206;1;42
p.tebt;1;42
3678
3678
P.Tebt.0042
Marres informs Ptolemaios, strategos, about an alleged fraud in a contract drawn up for him.
In red ink in upper left corner: 42
The papyrus was found together with several demotic rolls (edited in the Catalogue General des Antiquites Egyptiennes du Musee du Caire) in a house within the temple area of Tebtunis.
1698
Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Greek
1 papyrus ; 17 x 15.3 cm.
17 lines, on recto along the fibers.
Verso empty
Late 2nd century B.C.?
Tebtunis
Ptolemaios
Harmiysis
House at Tebtunis
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English
Greek
Fraud
Notaries
Tebtunis
Polemonos meris
Petitions, Ptolemaic period
Recto
Verso
To Ptolemaios, the (king's) cousin and strategos, from Marres son of Marseisouchos, priest of the great god Soknebtynis and also a cultivator of Crown land, living at Tebtunis in the division of Polemon. I have been excessively unfairly treated by Harmiysis, the writer of contracts of the said village. The accused conspired together with Thracidas son of Apollonios, an inhabitant of the said village; in Thoth of the present year I made a lease of the six arouras of Crown land belonging to me near the said village at a fixed rent for the whole of 36 artabas of wheat; but Harmiysis instead of that sum made a lease for 30 artabas of wheat, on the ground that from the whole amount I had received 6 artabas as a pledge, such not being the case � (Here the papyrus breaks off.)
P.Tebt., I.42; Chrest. Wilck., no. 328. Marseisouchos was suggested on the basis of a photo by K.Th. Zauzich (letter of 3 March 1977).
P.Tebt.:1:42
[Original record](http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/apisdb/record/471).