Petition 324AD Isidoros, son of Ptolemaios APIS columbia.apis.p206 (NNC)aaa1293 p.col.7.171 0094;7;171 p.col;7;171 10525 10525 Col.inv. 187 Petition in which Aurelius Isidoros complains in vivid details about the irruption of the cattle of two men: as he was leading a cow away he was assaulted and a deacon and a monk helped him Latest dated document from the archive of Isidoros Written along the fibers, with a large blank space at the bottom; the back is blank 22 lines of writing in a rapid, very ligatured, cursive hand In Greek 1papyrus ; 12 x 26 cm 324 CE

Purchased by Columbia University from Dr. Askren through H.I. Bell in 1924; no. 5 in Bell's inventory

 APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent. English In Greek Dioskoros Caeso, -- praepositus Cattle grazing on crops Papyri
To Dioskoros Caeso, praepositus of the 5th pagus, from Isidoros son of Ptolemaios, from the village of Karanis in your pagus. The cattle of Pamounis and Harpalos damaged the planting which I have and, what is more, [their cow] grazed in the same place so thoroughly that my husbandry has become useless. I caught the cow and was leading it up to the village when they met me in the fields with a big club, threw me to the ground, rained blows upon me and took away the cow--as indeed the (marks of) the blows all over me show--and if I had not chanced to obtain help from the deacon Antoninus and the monk Isaac, who happened by, they would probably have finished me off completely. Therefore I submit this document, asking that they be brought before you to preserve my claim (to be heard) in the prefectural court both in the matter of the planting and in the matter of the assault. In the year of the consuls-to-be for the fourth time, Pauni 12.
P.Col. VII 171 Editio princeps: Lewis, P.Coll.Youtie II 77; plate, P.Col. VII, Microfiche 1; Horsley, "New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity," (1976) no. 81; in reference to ll. 14-15, an earlier deacon is attested in P.Oxy. LV 3787.24 P.Col.:7:171