Petition of Idomeneus about the flooding of his vetch field TM 3335Kaminoi (Arsinoites)13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greeting, from Idomeneus, one of the cultivators of the gift-estate of Chrysermos, from the village of Kaminoi. I am wronged by Petobastis son of Taos and Horos son of Keleesis, of the same village. For when I had leased from the gift-estate of Chrysermos […] 2 arouras and had sown the land with vetch, Petobastis and Horos, the aforementioned, flooded my crop, so that my vetch became useless and I cannot even recover the expenses incurred on the land. I therefore beg you, O king, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Hephaistion the epistates to send Petobastis and Horos, the accused, to Krokodilopolis, so that my case against them may be decided before Diophanes, and, if I prove that they flooded my crop, that they be compelled to take over my crop and to undertake the rents, and that from the land which they themselves cultivate an equal amount be given to me in exchange for what they flooded. For if this is done, having taken refuge with you, O king, I shall be able to pay the rents to Chrysermos, and I shall have obtained your benevolence. Farewell. To Hephaistion. Preferably 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. Idomeneus, cultivator of the gift-estate of Chrysermos, against Petobastis and Horos concerning the flooding of land.