Draft petition of Ammon to the katholikos claiming his brother's slaves TM 100077Alexandria bzw. Panopolis348 CE

[a] [… lines lost …] […] […] […] then […] […] this very thing […] […] of the slaves, their master determined […] having considered him, I have pondered this […] as if astounded by the outcome of [the affair, and almost] not seeming to be myself, [seeing these slaves] [and those who wish thus] carrying off and plundering our property as if […]. For this reason I now secure myself, asking […] [your, O lord,] exactness regarding the laws, if indeed it is necessary for me to […] [bear the deception] and even a correction of the error that occurred […] this, if they let go with […] […] [necessarily] that he too will comply with what [will be shown] through the will [and] [not] give up a prejudgment. If this appears to have been omitted […] [will happen] […] [and that] [he provide as guarantor a man in] the city or having his hearth in the Thebaid, [so that, if anything hereafter now concerning] these slaves be shown that […] […] the guarantor become liable for what will be shown […] […] staying in other lands, and since [these slaves were kept under guard] by the office of the katholikos until my [arrival, and Eugeneios] having asked that they be under guard [for seizure], and [to me] […], I ask, lord, that they be handed over to me and [from the guard] […], for the laws now call me to the [ownership of the slaves, being] the [full] brother, [by the same father and] [same mother], of that Harpokration […] to the […] given to Eugeneios through […] […] keeping […] [b] […] nothing of what he promised through which […] and this too was added to the most violent […] having […] the things agreed with the other of all the [slaves] […] and accordingly he himself has transgressed the agreements […] his pretext, while our [property] was shut up […] having made in time, so that also in writing […] the presentation, so that also through tokens […] the wish of [Harpokration] himself and through all the other things […] […] thus it is necessary for us to choose what must be done […] these slaves common […] […]