Petition of a widow against her house host about a dividing wall TM 3290Magdola (Arsinoites)28. Jan. 222 v.Chr.

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Asia. I am wronged by Pooris the stathmouchos (host of the billet). For when my husband Machatas was assigned a billet in the village of Pelusion and had divided it with Pooris, and had built on his own plot a shrine of the Syrian Goddess and of Aphrodite Berenike, and there was a half-finished wall between Pooris' part and my husband's, and I wished to complete the wall so that it could not be climbed over into our property, Pooris has prevented me from building, although the wall does not concern him at all, but out of contempt because my husband has died. I beg you therefore, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Menandros the epistates that, if the wall appears to be ours, he not allow Pooris to prevent us from building, so that, having taken refuge with you, O King, I may obtain justice. Farewell. To Menandros. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send them to us so that we may examine the matter. Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13. [verso] Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13. Asia against Pooris concerning the demolition of a wall.