Petition to the prefect about arson of a threshing floor at Karanis TM 10397Kom Aushim (Karanis)299 A.D.

To Aelius Publius, the most distinguished prefect of Egypt, from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome. A matter requiring your examination I lay before your excellence by this my petition, lord prefect, being in good hope of obtaining help from you. The matter is as follows. My threshing floor was piled with the harvest of eleven arouras in the plain of the same village of Karanis, and when I myself went to inspect it in order to complete the agricultural work on the 27th of the month Mesore of the past year, I found the aforesaid threshing floor set on fire by criminals, and […] following the proper procedure I submitted (?) attested documents […] these to the office of the strategos, asking that an assistant be sent to go down to where the outrage took place and, having inspected it, to report, as he did report this. On making inquiries I learned from evidence who had dared to do this, namely Akotas son of Germanos and Chairemon son of Ptolemaios son of Harba[…] from the same village of Karanis, and Heron son of Mouranos from the village of Ptolemais Nea, when I inquired about this of the public officials of the village, Sotas and Leonides, who might have been present at that place on that day; they submitted these very names, and concerning this I filed other attested documents […] […]