Petition to the strategos naming arsonists of a threshing floor TM 10395Karanis (Arsinoites)298 - 299

To Aurelius Heron, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis. I have already previously, best of strategoi, submitted a petition to you on the 27th of the month of Mesore of the past year, to the effect that certain malefactors had set fire to the threshing floor which I had near the same village, from the harvest of the 11 arouras belonging to me, so that my claim might be preserved against those who should be shown to be responsible, and I requested through that same submission of my petition that an assistant be sent to go down to where the outrage took place and, having inspected it, to make a report about it, as he did report these things. But on making enquiries I learned who had dared to do this, I mean Akotas son of Germanos and Chairemon son of Ptolemaios […]