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TM 3437 [TM Petitions 247]

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

Stable URI (with TM Petitions ID): www.trismegistos.org/petitions/247

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)

8 formulaic elements in this petition

LinePassageTypeFormula / request
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