P.Cair.Zen. 3 59379

34 x 12.5

CG59379; JE48906

Letter from Amenneus to Zenon

(?)

Amenneus the swineherd had been ordered by Zenon to fatten some pigs for the festival of Arsinoe. He did so, pawning his blanket to raise the money. But when he brought them down to a certain village, two of them were stolen; and the man who had taken them refused to give him satisfaction, pretending that the missing pigs had been eaten by a crocodile. So Amenneus begs Zenon to write to the villagers and the nomarch not to allow such things to be done. He complains also that a certain man, about whom he has already presented a petition to Zenon, will not let him pasture his pigs. On the verso is a note, in smaller handwriting, giving the names of three persons who had each stolen a pig; this seems to have been added on subsequent information

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