Official letter from TheonTheonAPISberkeley.apis.241(CU)241p.tebt.3.1.7110206;3.1;711p.tebt;3.1;71153225322P.Tebt.0711Theon informs the guards and cultivators of Oxyrhyncha about the misconduct of Petous, komarches of the same village.Recto and verso publishedMargins: top, 5.7 cm.; left, 4.3 cm.; bottom, 3.5 cm.1210Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., BerkeleyGreek1 papyrus ; 30.1 x 16.2 cm.20 lines, on recto along the fibers.On verso, along the fibers, address
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Theon to the guards and cultivators at Oxyrhyncha, greeting. I learn from several persons that Petous � komarches of the village, is defaulting and misconducting himself, and that he is greatly in arrears with the amount agreed on with him and due for his appointment, � [artabas] of grain, and has deferred it up to the 20th of �, being in debt for more than half. Hasten therefore � (Addressed on the verso) To the harvest-guards and cultivators at Oxyrhyncha.