Letter from Sarapas and Gaia to Eutychides about a lawsuit before the prefects TM 15973Oxyrhynchos

[recto] Many greetings, Eutychides. We, Sarapas and Gaia, salute you and make obeisance on your behalf, and on behalf of your brother Herakleides and your wives and the children, before the great Sarapis. Know that after the unlawful decision which Agrippa delivered against Gaia, she petitioned the former prefect Datus, asking to receive the interest on her gift for maintenance, and he ordered her by subscription to petition the same Agrippa. She did petition Agrippa, and he undertook the investigation. Later, when the minutes had been posted and the fortunate prefect Julius Basilianus had happily arrived in the city, I petitioned him by means of petitions, placing at the head the ordinance censured by Agrippa and others, and the whole petition of Herakleitos and the subscription and the minutes of Agrippa, complaining that he had given judgement contrary to the laws, and complaining also about the advocate, because he did not present my just claims, and asking either that what had been assigned to me be returned or my own property. He ordered me by subscription, having referred the minutes, to make use of my legal rights. And since the subscription was ambiguous, I gave him another, again with all the aforesaid […], asking whether he wished me to make use of the subscription of Herakleitos. And again he subscribed, agreeing with her (?), ordering me to […] by the procedure of the laws. Therefore I am writing to you so that you too may […] me. Sarapammon greets you. We pray for your health. [verso] From Sarapas and Gaia. Give to Ammonios the branch-seller at the temple of the god and he will give it to him. To Eutyches the branch-seller under the gateway of the Sarapeum by the great statue.