Draft petition of a settler against harassment by false registrations TM 2524Arsinoites15. Febr. 129 v.Chr.

[… lines lost …] … of the farmers themselves, holding the rank of village scribe in the plain districts […] … testimony to me through Tou…thes (?) the monographos, neither having entered (?) … […] concerning not having […] used force nor … nor having expelled … and … […] … concerning which … Pankrates the archisomatophylax and in charge of the syntaxis, on the 24th of Tybi of year 31 […] of them through the contract-writer Marres […] … to subscribe that Menches, who has now taken over the village scribeship, consents. Since therefore my affairs require your hatred of wrongdoing and your help, I ask you to look into these matters and the way in which I have been ruined by an unreasonable man, harassed by empty registrations contrary to what has been ordered concerning those from the katoikia and the other documents, and to settle my affairs as epistates of the cavalry (?). For if this is done, through you I shall obtain help. Farewell.