Contrat d’emprunt

⳨ in the third year of the reign and consulate of our most pious lord Flavius Iustinus eternal August and Emperor, on the twenty seventh of Pachon of the second starting indiction according to God’s will, in the most illustrious Antinoopolis. To clarissimus Flavius Christophoros, son of Theodoros of best memory, the landlord in this Antinoopolis, from Ioannes, son of Kyros, humble deacon of the most sacred House of God of the enduring all the ordeals martyr apa Victor situated in the Antinoite nome, in the quarter of Pindaros from which he also hails, greetings. I, the afore-written Ioannes, son of Kyros, humble deacon of the above-mentioned holy topos, acknowledge, through this written security of mine, that I have and was given by your clarity (to fulfill) my own and necessary needs, from hand to hand, the total of two gold imperial genuine solidi, each minus five carats according to the public weight and measure of Antinoopolis, that is 2 solidi minus the sum of 10 carats of the public measure of Antinoopolis. And I (along with my heirs and successors) am ready to (re)pay to your clarity and your successors, within two months counted from today this above-written day, that is twenty-seventh of the present second indiction, without any misunderstandings and postponement, without interest. Upon the arrival of the above-mentioned appointed time if I do not pay back to you the mentioned two solidi minus the sum of ten carats according to the public weight, I grant you the power and licence in every way, without trial and action and whatever argumentation and circumvention of laws, to put a hold against all my property and rents until you fill these two solidi being secured for you on the account of pledge and by the right of mortgage. And for your security having been asked about all the above I consented … established … documents and … according to laws. I, Ioannes, son of Kyros, deacon of the holy topos of apa Victor… The document made by Ioannes, son of Kyros, deacon of the holy Victor: 2 solidi minus 10 carats.