Petition of Aurelia Serenilla to the prefect about seized inheritance and taxes TM 15764Oxyrhynchos300 - 301

To Claudius Cleopatrus, the most eminent prefect of Egypt, from Aurelia Serenilla, daughter of Syrion also called Eustochios, former gymnasiarch, former councillor of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, acting without a guardian by the right of children. I ought not, in addition to the misfortunes that have befallen me so grievously by my fate […], to be oppressively subjected to violence. But since, deprived of the care of my parents […], and moreover since the property left to me, chiefly by my father himself, has been unlawfully seized by violent and powerful men, I petitioned about its restoration those who held the prefecture before, and indeed also your Magnificence, and orders were issued through decisions and subscriptions, and also through proceedings held before the judges appointed from time to time by the prefecture, so that the restoration of this property was made to me and I was put into possession. But since, acting all the more boldly in using violence against me, they have not only refused to withdraw from our property, but he even subjects me also […] to pay taxes on behalf of it, from which I have not even enjoyed the revenue […] of the collectors […] and I am continually held in the public accounting office, things that are not just, not […] nor fitting, but alien both to the laws and to the peace administered for us by your Magnificence in accordance with them. Therefore I ask, if it seems good to your Fortune, to order by subscription that the strategos permit nothing improper to be done against me by the collectors, but […] those who by violence enjoyed the fruits of our property […] having restored […] so that I may be able to remain in my own […] on this […] agreed […]. Farewell. […] Year 17 and 16 […] If anyone […] Sheet […], roll […]