Petition to the strategos about a loan secured on temple allowances TM 11737Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)19. - 28. Aug. 14

To Dionysodoros, strategos, from Setabous son of Herieus the younger, of those from Soknopaiou Nesos in the division of Herakleides. I lent to Harpagathes son of Panephremmis, of those from the same village, under a contract of loan, 325 drachmas of silver at the agreed interest, Harpagathes having agreed under the loan contract not to touch the [...] pledged allowances given to him from the temple and the bounties of the distribution until he has first repaid me the loan and the interest. But in the present year 1 of Tiberius Caesar, Harpagathes, with every intention of defaulting, being unwilling to abide by the rights laid down in the loan contract, and attempting instead to seize the pledged allowances and bounties falling to him from the temple, approached the strategos asking that I be deprived. I therefore ask, having appended below the copy of the loan contract, that you, if it seems good, order a letter to be written to the chief of the priests of the village and to the other leading men, that they must pay me what is owed by Harpagathes out of the share of the common bounties falling to him, so that I may have received benefaction from you. Farewell. [Year 41 of the rule of Caesar, son of the god], month of Phamenoth [...]. From Setabous son of Herieus the younger, of the priests from the island of Soknopaios, to Harpagathes son of Panephremmis [...] [...] [...]