Petition of Krateuas against shepherds who assaulted him over illegal grazing TM 3350Magdola (Arsinoite Nome)Jan. 28, 222 BC

[recto] To King Ptolemy, greetings from Krateuas, Macedonian, holder of 30 arouras. I am wronged by Harmiesis and […] shepherds from Alabanthis. For, as I am in charge of certain allotments (kleroi) of the […], in Year 25, Phaophi 13, when I went down to the fields and found that the sheep of the aforementioned shepherds had grazed down the pastures of one allotment, that of Asteropaios […], and when I rebuked them and called witnesses, they paid no heed, but leapt upon me holding sticks, struck me with blows and took away the cloak I was wearing. When I came […] and showed my wounds to Herodotos the epistates, and how I had been stripped naked by them […], there arrived Chales, one of the shepherds, bringing my cloak, which I recovered. […] I submitted a petition to Diophanes the strategos, which he endorsed and sent to Herodotos the epistates; but Herodotos, acting negligently, has kept putting me off until now. I beg you therefore, O King, to order Diophanes the strategos not to overlook me, lawlessly outraged by the shepherds, but to write to Herodotos the epistates not to act negligently, but to send them to Diophanes, and, if they are shown to have grazed down the pastures and to have outraged me and stripped me, regarding the pastures […], and regarding the outrage, that Diophanes decide. For if this is done, through you, O King, the common saviour of all, I shall obtain justice and help. Farewell. (Docket) To Herodotos. […] so that he may not petition repeatedly about the same matters. […] Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13 [verso] [Year 25, Loios 26, Choiak 13]. [Krateuas against] Harmiesis […] concerning allotments […]