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Petition from Portis : to Menches

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Description

Portis, a farmer of crown lands, petitions to Menches, village scribe of Kerkeosiris, complaining of a raid on his house by a band of marauders, headed by Pyrrhichos, and reporting which items were stolen on the occasion.

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