Petition to the prefect about an inheritance taken by a dowered sister TM 11642Bakchias (Arsinoites)ca. 40

To Gaius Vitrasius Pollio from Orsenouphis son of Manrres, of those from the village of Bakchias in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, royal farmer. When my aforementioned father died in the 4th year of Gaius Caesar Imperator Augustus, he left by will his property to me and to my brothers Orsenouphis and Sisois and Petobastis and Marres, and the furniture and other things in his house to our mother Taonnophris for the period of her life. In the meantime our mother has also died, and we ought to take over her property in accordance with our father's will. But our eldest sister, who was given a dowry by our father as long ago as the 35th year of the deified Caesar, and to whom nothing of the paternal and maternal property falls in accordance with our father's will, has dared, together with her husband Ptolemaios son of Horion, to carry off our father's furnishings and utensils, left by our father to our mother and falling to us, to the value of 1,500 silver drachmas. Therefore I ask you, the saviour and benefactor of all, if it seems good, to take up the matter so that I may obtain justice, so that we may be benefited. Farewell.