Petition over burial money withheld by a women's religious association TM 3296Magdola (Arsinoites)13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Therous and Teos. We are wronged by Temsois and Senemenopis and Teteim[…] and Herieus and the other female members of the religious association (thiasos) from Kerkethoeris, in the division of Polemon. For Soeris my sister, wife of the aforementioned Teos, who was a fellow member of the association with the aforementioned women and had held the priesthood of the association for 4 years, happened to die […]; and since she has no next of kin other than us, the aforementioned women, when asked, do not pay the burial money. We therefore beg you, King, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Ptolemaios the epistates that, if they are even now willing, they pay us the burial money, and if not, that he send them to Diophanes so that they may be compelled to pay us, so that through you, King, I may obtain justice. Farewell. To Ptolemaios. Above all reconcile them; if not, send them to us from the 10th of Choiak, so that they may be judged before the competent court. Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29. [verso] Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29. Therous and Teos against Temsois and the female association members, concerning burial money.