Petition of the Transtigritani to the governor of Arcadia about annona from Kerke TM 9378Arsinoites528 - 542

[…] …ōros, Pettirios, Strategios, Atarbios, Ph[…]tos, Phoibammon, Menas, the most illustrious count and governor of the province of Arcadia, from the priores of the most devoted Transtigritani. […] from the divine delegatio sent down, the annonae and capita clearly assessed each indiction on the village of Kerke, and that very many […] not to do; and a few days ago we sent soldiers from our unit to the same village to demand in part the annonae owed to us. […] having risen in revolt against the soldiers who went there, they drove them out, not wishing to give them any answer. Now therefore the people of the same village, having repented, […] us and asking that pardon be granted them for what they had dared to do, and asking also that soldiers from our numerus come again in order to receive (?) […] the annonae owed to us; but they protested to us in writing through the most learned defensor of the Arsinoites, lamenting and saying that certain persons belonging to […] […] village, having bucellarii of the glorious house of the patrician Strategios, demanding from us bitter expenses, though having no share in our village, […] of our […] their horses ate up, and the other […] and we call upon your authority and adjure you by the Lord Christ […] of our most pious and gloriously victorious lord Flavius Justinian, eternal Augustus and Emperor, to order the administrators of the same glorious house […] the bucellarii, who have no share, as we said before, in the aforementioned village, so that, when our soldiers go into the […] […] as has been said, the […] annonae, no opposition may arise from the same bucellarii and, as is likely, no strife may arise between them, and we may be blameless […] glorious house […] as far as possible; and so that these things may be known, we have written to your magnificence. […]