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To [..…]esis, archiphylakitês of Berenikis Thesmophorou, and his phylakitai, from Poregebthis, priest and warden of the temple of Isis from the same village. On the 15th of the present month, while I was sacrificing in the temple of Isis there on behalf of the king and queen and their children and ancestors, totally innocent, … Perutis, son of Perutis, whipped (me?)… and took… and when I cried out for help, Papontos, my …, but they removed by force from the… (and) planted many blows on me, and wounded my shin, and beat me in my face and took off in possession of my honey and a linen garment worth 2000 drachmas, and a bag containing 328 bronze drachmas, and a bronze altar and a drinking vessel, (all of?) which I recovered from the wardens of the temple on the 15th. I am submitting a petition to you so that you may send the perpetrators to Meleagros, the epistatês phylakitôn, so that, once the examination of them has been held, they may meet with the fitting punishment and I may recover the things which I have described. For once this has happened, …. (J. Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement, p. 72)