EnteuxisPeteurisAPISmichigan.apis.3058(MiU)305881238123sb;20;15001P.Mich.inv. 6979Peteuris, the fuller, asks the king to summon Tettaphos the epistates of Lysimachis and to begin the investigation of the charges which Peteuris has filed against him.Location: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto; Verso is blankGreek3 papyri ; a: 11.6 x 14.0 cm;b: 13.0 x 20.4 cm;c: 2.5 x 2.7 cmBroken into three fragments which no longer join. Two larger pieces preserve a larger margin to about 2.5 cm.1-21Source of description: Recto
Clear Ptolemaic hand.
July 15, 215 B.C.Krokodilopolis, Arsinoite nome, EgyptThasos, the isionomosMenniskosXenniasPeteuris, the phylakitesHermipposPoseidoniosPoseidion, strategos
Krokodilopolis, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekLysimachis,;Krokodilopoliseveryday lifeDocumentaryPapyrus
"[I am being wronged by Tettaphos who is the chief-of-police of Lysimachis. For on the 1st of P]aun[i in the] 6th fiscal [year, he came to my shop and asked me for the himation that] Tha[sos the isionomos of the residents] in Ly[simachis had given m]e to clean; [when I asked him for the stipulated payment, he] made no reply, but attacking me in the aforesa]id village with Meniskos and Xennias, [he laid hands on me - - -striking me] with fists and kicks on whatever part [of my body] he chanced [- - -. When (?)] he had given [me] into the custody of the phylakites, since it was the hieromenia, [I was released and I went (?) to] Krokodilopolis on the 3rd of the same month. [- - -] Tettaphos, against whom I lodge this complaint, taking Peteuris, the phylakites, and [- - -] searched, looking for me in order to beat me up, [but not finding me] because [I was] in Krokodilopolis, they lay in wait for me until - - [- I returned to my work]shop. Thus Tettaphos, Xennias, Meniskos, Mermippos and P[- - -] entered [my workshop] carrying clubs, attacked me [with numerous blows, and] scattered my inventory in the presence of [Peteuris, the] phylakites, on which matters I called him to witness. [- - -] in the violence [many things,] the quantity [of which] I do not know, were ruined. Poseidonios, [the oikonomos, requested that] Poseidion, the strategos, write to [Tettaphos] to proceed to Krokodilopolis, and] I ask [and beg you, O king, to order Poseidion, the] strategos, to request Tettaphos to [appear before] him [and - - -; to submit (?) into the village [- - - on these matters that have been] done against me, [Poseidion to decide (?). When redress and [- - -] have taken place, [I, if you so decide, will] have happened [upon your] help, [O, king.] Farewell.
T Caulfield - A Estner & S Stephens, ZPE 76, 250-4, 1989, Pl XV -- SB XX 15001 Bain D, ZPE 79, 71-2, 1989