Petition of Valeria Neilous against Chairemon over encroachment on land at Karanis TM 12022probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt155 A.D.

To Ptolemaios, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, divisions of Themistos and Herakleides, also acting as strategos of the division of Herakleides, from Valeria Neilous, daughter of Gaius Valerius Maximus, Antinoite, through her guardian Serenos, son of Marcus Sempronius Cornelianus, also an Antinoite. I have a dispute with Chairemon son of Petheus, from the village of Karanis, concerning the fact that, encroaching on the boundaries of me and my minor sister Valeria Sarapias, he is laying hold of our land, to the extent of half an aroura, in the fields of the same Karanis at the place called Koilas, from which he carries off for his own use no small amount each year; and since the matters concerning him require the judgment of the most illustrious prefect Sempronius Liberalis, I ask that a copy of this be served on him through an attendant, so that, having written notice, he may appear wherever the assizes or jurisdiction of the nome is held, I being content with this notification. Year 18 of Antoninus the lord, Phamenoth 7. […] (2nd hand) I have served it in the presence of […]