Petition of Isidoros against village officials over liturgy nominations TM 10398Karanis (Arsinoites)309 - 310 (?)

[To …], praepositus of the 5th pagus of the Arsinoite nome, from Aurelius Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis in the pagus under you. The laws forbid what is done to us humble people tending to our ruin and flight, and I too, being an altogether humble man, suffer violence and lawlessness at the hands of Heron and Paesis and Horion and Achillas, secretary of the same village of Karanis. For while these men are shielding […] thirteen men who are no longer present in the village at all, they nominated me for the office of sitologos, though I am already registered for so many arouras, more than 140, for which I pay no small amounts to the treasury, especially since the greater part of them is uncultivated land, with the aim that I become liable for the deficits of the names that are without means. Nonetheless, now again, shielding Paesis, whom the district called up for the collection of chaff, they are trying to put me in place of Paesis, perhaps having extracted money from him, to my ruin. For I can show that they apportioned in the village […] and […] [… lines lost …]