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UPZ I 46 Take me to TM Texts data
Date: year 20 of Ptolemaeus VI: BC 162 Oct 3 - 161 Oct 1
Provenance: Memphis, Saqqara, Serapeum - Egypt [found & written]
Language/script: Greek
Material: papyrus
Incompletely preserved
Bibliography: BL 5
Format: later hypomnema
Function: petition
Addressee: hypodioiketes
Petition subject(s): disputes concerning work agreements, misconduct or negligence by authorities
Duplicate(s): TM Petitions 248 (UPZ I 47) and TM Petitions 249 (UPZ I 48) and TM Petitions 250 (UPZ I 49) and TM Petitions 251 (UPZ I 50)
Line | Passage | Type | Formula / request |
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1 | Σαραπίωνι τῶν διαδόχων καὶ ὑποδιοκητῆι παρὰ Θαυῆτος καὶ Θαοῦτος διδυμῶν τῶν λειτουργουσῶν ἐν τῶι πρὸς Μέμφει μεγάλωι Σαραπιείωι | prescript | τῶι δεῖνι παρὰ τοῦ δεῖνος |
3 | καὶ πρότερον μὲν ἐπεδώκαμέν σοι ὑπόμνημα | introduction of the body of the text | other introductions of the body of the text (Greek) |
17 | δεόμεθά σου | introduction of the request | δέομαι οὖν σου and variants |
19 | ἀνακαλεσάμενον [Ψι]νταῆν τὸν ἐπιστάτην τῶν ἱερῶν ἐπανα[γκ]άσαι ἀποδοῦναι ἡμῖν παραχρῆμα τὰς ὀφειλομ[έν]ας ἡμῖν τοῦ ιη καὶ ιθ (ἔτους) ὀλύρης ἀρτάβας ρξ \ καὶ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ Ἀσκληπίου σύνταξιν διαλογισαμένους | requests to summon, send or bring someone before an authority | requests to summon, send or bring someone before an authority (ἀνακαλέομαι = to summon) |
21 | ἀνακαλεσάμενον [Ψι]νταῆν τὸν ἐπιστάτην τῶν ἱερῶν ἐπανα[γκ]άσαι ἀποδοῦναι ἡμῖν παραχρῆμα τὰς ὀφειλομ[έν]ας ἡμῖν τοῦ ιη καὶ ιθ (ἔτους) ὀλύρης ἀρτάβας ρξ \ καὶ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ Ἀσκληπίου σύνταξιν διαλογισαμένους | requests to make the other party hand over property | requests to make the other party hand over property (money or movables) |
23 | κομισάμεναι γὰρ ταύτας λειτουργήσομεν διὰ σὲ πρ[ο]θύμως ἐν τῶι ἱερῶι | rhetorical conclusion | other conclusion introductions |
23 | κομισάμεναι γὰρ ταύτας λειτουργήσομεν διὰ σὲ πρ[ο]θύμως ἐν τῶι ἱερῶι | rhetorical conclusion | conclusions stressing the petitioners’ ability to tend to the cult of the gods and rulers |
25 | εὐτύχει | closing | εὐτύχει |