Tenth pagus, vineland. In the fourth consulate of our lords Constantinus and Licinius Augusti to -- and to -- exegetes, both councillors of the illustrious and most illustrious city of Oxyrhynchos and keepers of the archives of landed property, from . . . of the village of Sesphtha in the tenth pagus and from her son . . . because of deceit and scheming from . . . NN of the village of Tuchinphagon . . . of the most distinguished governor . . . and thus we obtained his subscription . . . being evident he does not fail to recognize . . . he will provide the following . . . The defendants the appointed . . . the district's strategos Aurelius Apollonios alias Eudaimon. The strategos listened to the case . . . he declared transferring to me . . . a holding of grain land . . . forever . . . unjust men kept by themselves . . . on our fields . . . through the registers in your keeping . . . it was unlawful . . . it is necessary to the memorandum of the events . . . the request and transfer to be . . . through the books in your keeping. The year ninth and seventh of our masters Constantinus and Licinius Augusti . . . daughter of Phoibammon, and Eulogios. . . . He swore the sacred oath, as aforesaid . . .  (wrote for her) because she does not know letters. 

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(1 H.) Copy of the record of the proceedings. From the minutes of Aurelius Apollonios alias Eudaimon, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, during the 4th consulate of our masters Constantinus and Licinius Augusti, Mesore 13. In the office . . . from the village of Sesphtha of the same nome pleads against Papnouthios . . . The strategus said, "According to whose ordinance does she make the sale? . . . she brought in addition (the subscription) of my lord Aurelius Antonius perfectissimus." This indeed then . . . and even the attestation of the authority from (the praeses) Antonius . . . the sale which was in accordance with the laws and . . . having read the petition and the attestation . . . about your son  will provide the following . . . the suit of the case. It will be set up . . . the suit of the affair. The son of the petitioner therefore . . . want that from the father, saying . . . Tuchinphagon. But our opponents yielding to desire . . . falling upon the fields belonging to the son, for they enter . . . to the father not only just in his youth but also . . . he allows no one when the fathers were still alive . . . with the mother in their boorishness and prevailed . . . saying to put together the documents for the sale at the mouth (of the canal) . . . from the petitioner and from his mother and the money . . . And when we didn't receive anything on account of the payment . . . without delay in this . . . (I swear) by the gods that neither of the possession nor of the ownership . . . and we possess without yielding. Some lawlessness . . . of the praeses Aurelius Antonius. . .