your children; do therefore pray you, O great gods, if it seem right to you, to order 
Numenius, your cousin and secretary, to write to Lochus, your cousin and governor of the 
Thebaid, not to disturb us in this manner, and not to allow any other person to do so, 
and to give us authority to this effect; that we may put a stela, with an inscription, 
commemorating your beneficence towards us on this occasion, so that your gracious 
favour may be recorded for ever: which being done, we, and the Temple of Isis, 
shall be indebted for this, among other favours. Hail.” 
The stela was erected, and the favourable answer recorded in original monuments, 
which exist for our perusal after two thousand years. 
