Petition to the riparius of Aphrodite about a house robbery TM 19018Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

Ch(i) M(u) G(amma) To Claudius Apollos, the respected riparius of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, from Flavius Victor, son of Besios, soldier of the unit of the most noble Mauri stationed in the Hermopolite nome, originating from the same village of Aphrodite, greetings. The persons listed below from our village, plundering my house in the manner of robbers, also carried off the things found in that same house of mine. For this reason I submit to your diligence this petition of mine against those listed below, asking that you order them to be kept under guard and held in custody until the judicial decision of the case. For I am ready to trace the marks of their violence concerning the charge. I, Flavius Victor son of Besios, the aforesaid soldier, have submitted the petition as stated above. They are: Matheias son of Dios, my farmer; Anna daughter of Phoibammon, his wife. In the consulship of our master Flavius Justinian, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, Thoth 5, of the 7th indiction.