![]() ![]() ![]() On Phamenoth 21 of year 5 in the fiscal calendar, I went to Pysa in the said nome on a personal matter. The petition records his account, for which he is seeking justice at trial: We see the situation from his perspective, as the victim in a clear act of aggression by the woman, Psenobastis (note that Psenobastis is presumably a mishearing of the name by Herakleides, as it is a male name). Our evidence for the altercation comes from the petition that Herakleides, the Greek man in question, wrote to King Ptolemy (Ptolemy II Philadelphus). But was it an accident or a malicious act by a local against a foreign interloper? Suddenly, from above a shower of human effluence poured down upon him, drenching him to the bone. On 11 May 218 BCE, a Greek man living in the Fayum was walking through the streets of the village Psya.
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