To Valerius Ziper, the most distinguished praeses Aegypti Herculiae, from Aurelius  Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis of the Arsinoite Nome. In the month of Phamenoth in the consulate of Sabinus and Rufinus, my lord praeses, Kastor and his brother Ammonianus, inhabitants of the same village, having fallen into need borrowed from me thirty-two artabas of wheat and eighteen (artabas) of kidney-beans, and they gave me a note for these, mortgaging three oxen as security. On the same day, their  brother-in-law Tomis executed in my behalf a contract-bond by which he undertook the security of the oxen, so that if they [Kastor and Ammonianus] did not effect the delivery of  the produce to me within the month of Pauni, I was clearly to acquire ownership of the oxen, in accordance with the bond.
	Now since Kastor has departed this life and Ammonianus is in flight from his home, the  aforesaid Tomis and his brother Demetrios, who is the husband of Atolas the sister of my  debtors, have taken possession of everything left by them-viz., eight oxen, house(-lot)s and  the rest-and, despising me, have given me nothing, neither the produce nor the oxen,  though so long a time has passed.
	Therefore, I appeal to your nobility, begging and beseeching you to instruct, if it please you, through whomever you think best that my opponents be compelled either to pay back  the produce or to effect the transfer to me of the three oxen in accordance with the bond, and I shall be grateful to you. Farewell. Pharmouthi 18. (M2) (Reply of the praeses) The praepositus pagi, after having decided between you, will  provide you the appropriate assistance in the matter of the debt owed you. Page 68.