Petition to the epistrategos against a boundary-marker of Karanis TM 9425Karanis (Arsinoites)138 - 161

To the most excellent epistrategos, from […] also called Aphrodisios, son of Petheus, from the village of Karanis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, and from my sister Herais, who is also my wife. No one would take refuge at your tribunal unless he had been very greatly wronged. We, therefore, having been wronged by […], boundary-marker of the fields of the village, petition you as follows, lord: […] to Herais, named above, the share falling to him of his mother's house and courtyard and hay-barn, which are in the village of Karanis, according to a double handwritten contract of year […] of Antoninus Caesar the lord, in the month of Pharmouthi, he being a census-taker (laographos) and having authority over the records, which he sold, in the house-by-house census according to his own handwritten deed, one and the same, and when she had registered it publicly and communicated […] he declared […] the surplus (?) […] first […] living and dead […] being diminished (?) […] towards […] name […] […] in year […] of Antoninus Caesar the lord, in the month of Mecheir, and in the same year in the month of Ph[…] Petheus son of […]chos, our father, paid, and in the month of Pauni the same […] to the treasury his poll taxes. Although it has been ordered generally, lord, that no one is to serve as boundary-marker for more than […] years, this man has already for three village scribes […] for a period of six years been boundary-marker, contrary to what is forbidden […] Ammonios son of Harpagathes from the same village […] Aphrodisios and Valerius, thus again in the house-by-house census […] Thaesion daughter of Orsenouphis from the same village as his own […] he has left his own two children unregistered for many years now […] the same being evident […] your lordly decision, we hope to obtain help from you. Farewell.