Letter to a headman of Outer Laura about seized oxen TM 39439Oxyrhynchus7th century

[recto] † I want my good master to know […] to the women of the (estate/village?) of Apollo […] […] and all the things […] and they took the oxen of our farmers […] that we want the property which […] has […] and the […] of the northern house, so that he may write to the headmen […] our oxen without a fight, and of the […] let us go away and bring the equivalent of the oxen. I beg you to write to me, and I beg my master to write also to the headmen of Inner Laura, and let them bring also ten other names of theirs, and let us go together and bring the equivalent of the oxen. For so it was decided in the presence of my master and their administrator, that when our master the antigeouchos who is with you comes, they will settle with us jointly. And look, it was not possible until he comes, master, as you wrote to me yesterday by boat, so let him know, master, that there is no boat at our anchorage except the fishing boats, master. † [verso] … † To Pamamios, headman of Outer Laura † Your servant.