Petition to the strategos about an assault causing a miscarriage TM 12069Either Areos kome or Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptNovember 23, 47 A.D.

About 26 years old, scar on the neck on the left and on the left forearm. The wife Tanouris daughter of Heronas, against Bentetis son of Bentetis. From Thouonis son of Akousilaos, of those from Areos Kome, on the 26th of the present month Neos Sebastos of year 8 of Tiberius. To Apollonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Thouonis son of Akousilaos, of those from Areos Kome of the division of Polemon, on the 26th of the present month Neos Sebastos of year 8 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. When I was settling accounts with Bentetis son of Bentetis, sheep and cattle herder, of those from Oxyrhyncha of the same division, concerning the wages and measures (of grain) he owes me, he, not wishing to pay but rather to evade me, committed an outrage against me and against my wife Tanouris daughter of Heronas in the aforementioned Areos Kome. Moreover he also gave my wife Tanouris, who was pregnant, unsparing full blows on whatever parts of her body he happened to hit, so that she miscarried the baby dead, and as a result she is bedridden and in danger of her life. Therefore I ask you to write to the elders of Oxyrhyncha to send the accused to you for the proceedings to follow. Farewell. Year 8 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month Neos Sebastos 26. Thouonis, about 26 years old, scar on the neck on the left and on the left forearm.