Petition of Maron against Theodosios over division of a plot at Autodike TM 3341Magdola (Arsinoites)13. Jan. 218 v.Chr.

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Maron son of Euktes, Argive of the epigone. I am wronged by Theodosios son of Xanthos, Lycian of the epigone. For when my son Euktes had leased jointly with him a vacant plot in Autodike for 99 years from Artemon, and died before the joint plot was divided, Theodosios entered on it and built for himself the walls of a dwelling, having picked out the best and outermost part; and after this, when a division took place and a contract was drawn up that it had been divided fairly and equally, it was not divided justly for me, but he cheated me and gave me a useless plot, narrow and lengthwise, while he himself holds his own share in a square. I therefore beg you, O King, if it please you, to order Diophanes the strategos to write to Pythiades the epistates to go to the plot and divide it for me fairly and equally, and to compel him to turn the door, half-finished, which he has built in my part around into his own part; and since he has encroached on 70 cubits of my area, that in return for them I be given an entrance and exit as far as our common road, because I have been thrust further inside. For if this is done, through you, O King, I shall have obtained justice. Farewell. To Pythiades. Preferably reconcile them; if not, send them to us from the 10th of Choiak so that they may be judged before the appropriate court. Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29. [verso] Year 4, Daisios 27, Hathyr 29. Maron son of Euktes against Theodosios concerning entrance and exit.