Petition of a guard against a scribe charging rent on an extra aroura TM 3079Samaria (Arsinoites)

[…] […] […] Diophantos […] To Zopyros, epimeletes, […] from Dositheos son of […], guard, holder of 10 arouras, of those from Samaria. My allotment lies near the same village, and in the survey carried out in year 24 it was measured by Petos the topogrammateus and Apynchis the komogrammateus and the others customarily present, and no excess at all was found, but on the contrary a shortfall. Now Diophantos, the scribe of the cultivators, having made an assault on me, is extorting from me (?) against what is proper and is entering me as holding 1 aroura in addition to my allotment, although the komogrammateus has made no such report at all and none has been reported through the accounting office. Being harassed unreasonably over the rents, and in need of your hatred of wrongdoing, I ask you, if it seems right, to write to Petos the topogrammateus that, if I am shown by the inspection previously made by him to have no excess, provision be made so that I shall be free from harassment over the rents of the 1 aroura unreasonably charged to me by Diophantos. If this is done, I shall obtain fair treatment. Farewell.