Petition to the defensor about an assault on a man in a ferry-boat TM 22021Oxyrhynchos29. Nov. 509

[Fragment 1] To Flavius Hermias, the most eloquent advocate and defensor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, from […] son of Theophilos […] carrying on […] […] [… lines lost …] […] […] in the […] but […] […] of this splendid city […] […] to Sourous (?), who also carries on this work, belonging to the […] striking him on the head unsparingly and inflicting upon him a deadly blow, he struck him as he was in the ferry-boat, by his intention killing him, as the blow inflicted by him will testify, but by fortune having somehow left him alive; he is therefore still in doubt of his life. I beseech your eloquence first of all to inspect Sourous, and then to order the public tabularius […] and the riparii of this splendid city themselves to inspect the almost murdered Sourous, his condition and the blow inflicted on him, and that your eloquence make these things known to our common governor, magnificent and most wise in all things, for the punishment of what has happened; and to order also that the sealed report concerning this be given to me according to custom by the public tabularius, my lord most learned defensor. […] I, Theophilos (?) […] of the glorious house, have submitted this. † In the consulship of Flavius Opportunus, vir clarissimus, Choiak 3. † [Fragment 2] [… lines lost …] […] […] […] [… lines lost …]