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End of a petition complaining that unnamed persons carried off all the petitioner's belongings in the plains between Karanis and Philopator (also called Theogenous). The petitioner asks that the responsible officials search for the stolen goods. It dates to Epeiph of year 12 of Marcus Aurelius, AD 172, in the Arsinoite nome.
The beginning of the petition, with the addressee, petitioner and fuller account of the theft, is lost. Philopator also called Theogenous was a Fayum village near Karanis.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […]λη ε[…]…… μέσον πεδίων Καρανίδος καὶ Φιλοπάτορος τῆς καὶ Θεογένους ἐβάσταξαν πάντα ἃ εἶχον παρὰ ἐμαυτῷ. διὸ ἀξιῶ τὴν ἀναζήτησιν τούτων […] γενέσθαι παρʼ ὧν δέον ἐστίν. ἔτους ιβ Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἐπεὶφ[…]
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