Petition to a syndic about a son-in-law who abandoned his wife and child TM 15286Oxyrhynchos26. März 334

To Aurelius Julianus, syndic of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from Aurelia Ptolema daughter of Dionysios, from the same city. My daughter Arilla, daughter of Diogenes, […] I gave in marriage to a man, one Theon, […] by whom she also bore a male son, whom she nursed for a year and a half, and he provided neither maintenance for the child nor for his own wife; but having already been abroad for a long time, he took his bedding and […], and leaving my daughter in widowhood, he is trying also to demand back from me the bridal gifts which he provided at that time, despising my weakness. Therefore, not bearing the man's unscrupulousness, I submit this petition, asking that, if he persists in the same insolence and […] the laws […] laid down concerning marriages […] the maintenance of both his son and his wife […] not wishing to give, nor a livelihood (?) […] that she be separated from the man. In the consulship of Flavius Optatus, patrician, and Anicius Paulinus, the most illustrious, Phamenoth 30. I, Aurelia Ptolema, have submitted this.