Petition to the riparii about land transferred by boundary surveyors TM 17279Herakleopolites350

To Aurelius Apollonios and Aurelius Sotion, riparii of the Herakleopolite nome, from the Aurelii Sarapammon son of Pekysis and Soter, his brother, both from the village of Kolintathyr. Long ago, twenty-five years since, we bought from […], councillor, 5 arouras of land, and we have held the ownership and possession of them. But since now, in some manner, the boundary-markers of the district, Apollos and Kerdon, are handing over the […] land to the people from Ogou […], although the laws do not permit anyone to be removed from land without a judicial order, because the people from Ogou did not tell the truth when the boundary-markers were remeasuring the land, saying that we pay the rents, we submit this written petition of ours, requesting that the boundary-markers and the people from Ogou […] both be brought to give security. For this reason indeed we submit this written [petition] […] for your encouragement of the restoration of the land that has nourished us. In the consulship of Flavius Sergius and Flavius Nigrinianus, the most illustrious. We, the Aurelii Sarapammon and Soter, have submitted this. […] I wrote on their behalf, as they are illiterate.