Petition to the epistrategos about an assault over an inheritance TM 16886Oxyrhynchosca. 170

To Aquilius Capitolinus, the most excellent epistrategos, from Sarapion son of Hierax, of the city of Oxyrhynchus, curator of the Sarapeum of the tribes and of the other temples of the city. I petitioned you, lord, by a petition, as you required, and you promised to send back the petitions, and up to now it has not been delivered to me, concerning the outrage done to me by Ploution son of Dionysodoros and his son-in-law. I also petitioned Herakleides, royal scribe, who is also acting in the office of the strategos, and he compelled one of the assistants with him, Thrasyllos, to inspect my condition concerning the outrage done to me, and a doctor's report followed concerning the wounds I then had. Not only me but also my son and his nurse Heras he maltreated with blows on account of an inheritance […] of household furnishings (?) which her brother Sarapion left to Heras after his death, and the document was registered publicly through the archidikastes so that she is the heir. Thus, then, behaving so arrogantly, though he is a villager, he attacked us. I have taken refuge with you, the saviour and benefactor of all, to hear me against him. No violence occurs in the most fortunate times of our lord Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the […] epistrategos (?) […]