Petition to the strategos recording thefts from a deceased father's estate TM 15754Oxyrhynchos258 - 259

To Aurelius Sarapion, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Theoninos also called Sarapion, former high priest, and Theon, both exegetai and councillors of the city of the Oxyrhynchites. While our father Sarapion son of Sarapion, former exegetes of the same city, was still alive and living on his own, each of us also lived apart in his own house. But when he died, leaving as heirs ourselves and another brother of ours, Ammonios, according to the will he left, which was also opened after his death, on taking charge of his affairs we learned that thefts of documents and of not a few other […] had taken place. Securing ourselves in this matter, we submit this petition so that it may be placed on record, in order that, if by making enquiries we discover anything, we may retain our right of action against those who shall be shown to have committed the theft. Year 6 of the Emperors Caesars Publius Licinius Valerianus and Publius Licinius Valerianus Gallienus Germanici Maximi Pii Felices and Publius […]