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TM 6212 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/6212

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Date: late 3rd century BC: BC 225 - 200

Provenance: Apollonopolis (Edfu) - Egypt (2nd Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Content (beta!): petition to sovereign
See also TM Petitions (7 formulae), TM Letters TOP SS6 (7 formulae).

Recto/Verso: Ro

More info: DDbDP (PN)Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri => 114817 links in TM, HGVHeidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Urkunden aus Ägypten => 58606 links in TM

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    TM 6212

    (text of Papyri.info of September 2016)

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    sb.6.9302

    βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Φιλῶτας Πυρσοῦτος τῶν ἐν Ἀπόλλωνος πόλει τῆι μεγάλῃ κληρούχων. ἐπειδὴ πυκναὶ γίνονται αἱ ἀβροχίαι ἐν τῆι χώραι νῦν ἤδη καὶ παντελῶς, βούλομαί σοι, βασιλεῦ, μηχανὴν προσαγγεῖλαι, ἀφʼ ἧς σὺ οὐθὲν μὴ βλαβῇς, σωθήσεται δὲ ἡ χώρα διὰ τὸ λίαν ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἐνιαυτοὺς μὴ ἀναβῆναι τὸν ποταμὸν λιμὸς ἐπανέστη τοιαύτην λιμὸν μηδησω[......]ατες αὐτὰ ἀπολεσται ἀηδη [....] μήδε προ[.....] ἀλλά σου θέλοντος, βασιλεῦ, ἔσται εὐετηρία πολλή. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, συντάξαι Ἀρίστωνι τῶι στρατηγῶι δόντι μοι τριάκοντα ἡμερῶν τὰ ἐπιτήδεια τὴν ταχίστην με πρὸς σὲ ἀποστεῖλαι ἢ τὴν ἔντευξιν, ἵνα, ἐὰν σοι δόξῃ, βασιλεῦ, ἐκ τοῦ σπόρου εὐθὺς γένηται. ἔσται δέ σου βουλομένου διὰ ὅλης τῆς Θηβαίδος ἐν ἡμέραις πεντήκοντα τὸ πολύ. εὐτύχει.

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