bgu.1.255 15. Mai 599Memphis

In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus, in the name of Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, of the reign of the most divine and most reverent of our Master and greatest benefactor Flavius Maurice Tiberius, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, in the seventeenth year of Augustus, in the sixteenth year of the consulate of the same most reverent of our Master, in the month of Pachon, the indiction of the third in Memphis. Son of Ptolemy, the most illustrious general, the Aurelios, John, son of the blessed Elijah, and Minas, sailor, son of the blessed Salaminos, and Pomarites of your honor, son of the blessed Peter, both from the city of the Memphites, to rejoice. We confess through this written security of ours, swearing the divine and venerable oath and the royal safety to guarantee ourselves and to accept on behalf of it as long as you wish, Aurelios from Kouthion, so-called, and irrigator Arpheuton, son of the blessed Menas, nicknamed Koukouma, our fellow citizen residing and willingly complying with your commands, but whenever you search for him exceptionally, we will deliver him to you in the public guard of the aforementioned city of the Memphites on the appointed day, beyond the holy enclosures and divine characters and sacred Sunday or other unworkable day. But if we do not produce the man called Kouthion, then we shall be liable to provide and pay upon you.