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The petition comes home
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Claim (verbatim)
A petition was drafted at home, submitted to an office, and often returned or retained in copies, so identical petition texts can survive at both ends of the administrative pipeline. Which end survives is a preservation question with teeth: village house contexts should yield drafts and retained copies, with corrections and blank subscription spaces, while metropolis dumps should yield processed originals bearing office dockets. Duplicated petitions with divergent findspots therefore let us watch the same text pass through the administrative gut. If it holds, the surviving petition record over-represents the complainants' side of the desk, and complaint volumes inferred from finds need a context correction before they say anything about grievance rates.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Among duplicate or multi-copy petitions in papyri.info with known findspots in the project's place-mapping data, copies bearing registration dockets or official subscriptions cluster at nome-capital findspots while docket-less copies cluster at village findspots. Primary clause: that context split holds for at least 70% of duplicate sets with mappable findspots.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
papyri.info duplicate petitions joined to the project's papyri place-mapping data.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write from the inline prompt alone, with no file reads, web access, or database queries.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Duplicate documents and petition registration workflows are studied (Yiftach on registration requests; work on duplicates as controlled experiments), but the findspot-conditional split of docketed vs docket-less copies between nome capitals and villages is un-run.
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