Petition about unpaid rent in wheat and lentils TM 19440Apollonopolites Heptakomias117 - 120 (?)

Fragmentary petition, probably to the strategos, complaining that tenants failed to pay their rents and fell into arrears of 17 artabas of wheat and 17 artabas of lentils. The petitioners ask the official to hear their case. It comes from the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome, about AD 117-120.

In English machine translation

The opening with the addressee and the petitioners' names is lost; the strategos as addressee is inferred from the address to the 'helper of the nome'. Ekphoria are rents paid in kind on leased land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Beschwerde an den στρατηγός wegen rückständigen Pachtzinses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.