Petition by a person, probably a woman, complaining that another woman coveted certain goods and refused to return them, and also assaulted the petitioner, beating her and tearing off a small gold ornament. The petitioner asks the official to have the village epistates send the accused woman to him so she can be forced to return the property and be punished.
In English machine translation
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[…] having cast an envious eye on the […] […] […] she does not want to give these back. And in addition she committed against me no ordinary outrage and gave me many blows on every part of my body, so that in the struggle (?) she even tore off the little golden crescent (?) worth one quarter (?) which I was wearing. I ask you to order a letter to be written to the epistates of the village to send the accused woman up to you, so that she may be compelled, being held in custody, to return our property at once and may meet with what is fitting.
[…]
Farewell.
The beginning is lost, so the petitioner, the addressee and the goods in dispute are not identified. The 'meniskos' was a small crescent-shaped gold ornament; 'of a quarter' probably gives its weight or value.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte contre une femme pour violence). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.