τῷ ἐμῷ ἀγαθῷ εὐεργ(έτῃ) (καὶ) δεσπ(ότῃ) δέησις (καὶ) ἱκεσία
π(αρὰ) Πιηοῦτ[ο]ς ὑμετέρ(ου) δούλου ἀπὸ ἐποικ(ίου) Κινέας.
τὸ φιλόπτωχο[ν] καὶ φιλόχριστον τῆς ὑμετέρας πανευκλεοῦς δεσποτείας παρὰ πᾶσαν τὴν γ̣ῆν ἐξελθὸν πολλοὺς ταύτης προσφεύγειν αὐτῇ παρεσκεύασαν,
οἵτινες προσερχ[ό]μενοι τοῦ δικαίου καὶ πάσης ἐλεη[μοσύ]ν̣ης τυγχ[ά]νου̣σ̣ι̣.
[ὅ]θ̣ε̣ν̣
κἀγὼ ὁ ἐλεειν̣[ὸς]
[π]ροσέρχομαι κ̣α̣τα̣δακρύω[ν καὶ δι]δάσκων [κα]τὰ ἐμαυτὸν
[ὡς γεω]ρ̣γὸς ἐναπό̣γ̣ραφος τυγχάνω τῆς ὑμε̣τέρας π[α]νευκ̣λε̣οῦ̣ς δεσποτείας
[καὶ ὡς πρ(?)]ὸ τριῶν τούτων ἐνιαυτῶν ἐτελεύτησαν τὰ ἐ[μὰ] κτήνη καὶ ἀπέστην
[τῆς]
[ἐμ]ῆς̣ γεωργίας, ὡς εἴρηται, πρὸ τριῶν ἐνιαυτῶν καὶ ἔμεινα ἐπὶ ξένης.
[καὶ ἐπὶ(?)] τὸν α̣ὐ̣τ̣ὸν τριέτη χρόνον παραμένων ἐπὶ ξένης ὅπως εὕρω
ἀπ̣ο̣[τ]ρ̣οφὰς(?)(*) καὶ ἀποτραφῆναί(*)(\με/ μετὰ τῶν ἐμῶν τέκνων
η̣ ̣ ̣ τοῦ κτήματος
[παρακα]λῶ καὶ ἱκετεύω τὴν ὑμετέραν π̣[ανευκ]λ̣[εῆ δεσποτείαν](*)
[ἵνα](*) προστάξῃ(*) εἰσελθεῖν με ἐν τῷ κτήματι καὶ μὴ ἀπαι[τ]ηθῆναί με
[ὑπὲρ ο]ὗ̣ οὐ̣κ(*)(*) ἔσπειρα ὅπως ἐφεξῆς δυνηθῶ ἐργ[ά]σασθαι
[ἐν τῷ] α̣ὐτῷ κτήματι καὶ ἀποθρέψαι(*) τὰ ἐμὰ ἄθλια τέκνα. καὶ ἀναπέμψω
τῷ δεσπότῃ Χριστῷ \τὰς εὐχάς μου/ ὑπὲρ τῆς ζωῆς τῆς ὑμετέρας πανευκλεοῦς δεσποτείας. ἀδυνάτως γὰρ ἔχω, δέσποτα, συντελέσαι ὑπὲρ οὗ
οὐ̣ σπείρω. εἰσὶν γὰρ οἱ σπείροντες(*) καὶ δυνάμενοι συντελέσαι.
καὶ τοῦτο δὲ διδάσκω ὡς ὅτι ἐλθὼν ἐν τῷ κτήματι ὁ προνοητὴς διήρπαξεν πάντα τὰ εὐτελῆ μου πράγματα χάριν τῆς τοιαύτης αἰτίας. καὶ παρακαλῶ τοῦ ὑμετέρου ἐλέους τυχεῖν. μάρτυρ̣α̣ γὰρ ἐπικαλοῦμαι τὸν δεσπότην θεὸν ὡς ὅτι τὸ κλάσα̣ι̣(*) ἤτοι τὸ ξηρὸν
ψω̣μὶν(*) οὐκ ἔχω φαγεῖν μετὰ τῶν ἐμῶν τέκνων προκειμένης τ[αύ]της̣ [ἕνε]κα τῆς εὐθενίας(*). καὶ τούτου χάριν κατέφυγα αὐτῇ ὅπ[ω]ς ἐναριθμηθῆναί με μετὰ πάντων τῶν εὐεργετηθέντων παρὰ α̣ὐ̣τῆς, πανευκλεέστ(ατε) εὐεργέτα, δέσποτα, κύριε.
None extracted.
To my good benefactor and lord, I make this supplication and entreaty.
From Pheotios, your servant, from the settlement of Kineas.
The charitable and Christ-loving nature of your most glorious lordship is known throughout the land, and many have prepared to flee to her.
Those who approach are found to be just and deserving of all mercy.
Therefore, I, the wretched one, approach, weeping and teaching against myself, as a farmer who is in debt to your most glorious lordship.
As for the three years that have passed, my livestock have perished, and I have been cut off from my farming, as has been stated, for three years, and I have remained in a foreign land.
And for the same three-year period, I have remained in a foreign land so that I might find sustenance for my children.
I beseech and implore your most glorious lordship to command me to enter the estate and not to demand from me what I have not sown, so that I may be able to work in the same estate and provide for my miserable children. And I will send my prayers to the Lord Christ for the life of your most glorious lordship.
For I am unable, my lord, to provide for what I do not sow. For there are those who sow and are able to provide.
And I teach this, that when the caretaker came into the estate, he seized all my humble belongings for such a reason. And I implore to receive your mercy. For I call upon the Lord God as a witness that I have no dry bread to eat with my children because of this need.
And for this reason, I have fled to her so that I may be counted among all those who have been benefitted by her, most glorious benefactor, lord, master.