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Regulation (frag.) for Gatherings for Drinking (I BCE) Herakleopolis - Upper Egypt


Herakleopolis (Upper Egypt, Egypt — Pleiades map), I BCE
GRA III 253 = BGU XIV 2371 = Papyri.info TM 3991 = AGRW ID# 31489
Copenhagen Inventory info: 1514


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Papyrus from cartonnage (21 x 25 cm). Now in the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin (P. 25156).

. . . it is not lawful for anyone to (about 30 characters missing) . . .  a private debt . . ., nor to prosecute him (about 23 characters missing)  . . . against him . . . he might meet just terms (about 27 characters of missing or partial words) . . . or he will be fined for that. . .  No one is to cloud the wine-drinking, nor to create disorder or he will be fined for that … the day’s wine-drinking, or he who might . . . judge.   Now if any of the others . . .  he will be fined . . . of verbal abuse, or a slap in the face, or . . . two blows of a rod . . . a wound . . . one talent of silver. . .  Now if anyone . . . of those who did it, the third . . . of them. . .

Translation by: Mark Mueller (with modifications)



— — μὴ ἐξεῖναι μηδενὶ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ς̣[- ca.30 -ὀ]φίλημα ([ὀ]φείλημα) ἴδιον [ -ca.?- ] | μηδʼ ἐνκαλεῖν αὐτῶι επα̣ι̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[- ca.23 -] ̣ κατʼ αὐτοῦ [ -ca.?- ] | τῶν δικαίων τύχηι η ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣σ̣α̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]σθαι [- ca.12 -] ἢ ὅτι ζη[μι]ωθήσετα[ι -ca.?- ] | μηδένα δὲ δασύνειν τὴν οἰνο̣ποσίαν, μηδὲ ἀκοσ̣[μ]ίαν παρέχειν ἢ ὅτι ζημιωθήσε̣[ται -ca.?- ] || τὴν τῆς ἡμέρας οἰνοποσίαν̣, ἢ ὃ ἂν ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ ̣ν̣ον κρίνηι· — — | ἐὰν δέ τις τῶν ἑτέρω̣ν̣ κα ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ζ]η̣μ̣[ιω]θ̣ήσετα̣[ι - ca.13 -] ̣ λοιδορήματος ἢ | ῥαπίσματο[ς] ἢ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣]ατος [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ] ῥάβδου πληγῆς β αντ[ ̣] ̣[ ̣ ̣]ης ω̣[ -ca.?- ] | τραυμ[α - ca.17 -]ματο̣[ς] (τάλαντον) α [— —] | ἐὰ[ν δέ τις - ca.16 -]ποιη̣σ̣[άν]των τὸ τρί̣τ̣ο̣ν̣ [ ̣]ντων π[ -ca.?- ] || [ -ca.?- ] ̣ν τῶν αὐτῶν· ...

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Item modified: July 15, 2020
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