Petition of a cleruch about overassessment of an orphan's plot near Oxyrhyncha TM 2522Arsinoites142 - 141 v.Chr. (?)

To Pankrates, archisomatophylax and in charge of the [assessment], from Ptolemaios, Macedonian, holder of 80 arouras, guardian of the 100-aroura kleros of Menoitos son of Olympiodoros, an orphan, near Oxyrhyncha in the division of Polemon. At the field apportionments of the epigraphe it was decided by the men that those sowing up to 50 arouras should be charged in pure wheat, and those sowing more in proportion to what would be sown. But on the kleros specified, since no more than 30 arouras were sown, [whose] produce was 90 artabas, from which it is proper that 15 artabas be assigned to the epigraphe of year 29, instead of which the scribes have wrongly entered, contrary to what was decided, 50 artabas in pure wheat, that is 35 artabas more, which ought to be credited: to the anippia entered for year 28 and the king's crown 18, total 68, and to the scribal fees 18, total 86, and the remaining 4 artabas to the transport charge and handling fee and the rest, so that all the 90 artabas collected have been recorded and nothing at all remains. [Therefore] I ask you, since nothing has been collected in the year on account of the [kleros] being sown (?), to order a letter to Koinos the collector that, after measuring out the 86 artabas of wheat as stated above, he should hold over the rest until the new crops, he himself [...] being required. For if this is done [...] it will be, and through you I shall obtain [justice] [...]