p.oxy.16.1976 23. Nov. 582Oxyrhynchos

[recto] † In the reign of our most divine and most pious master Flavius Tiberius Mauricius, eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 1, after the consulship of our master of divine memory Tiberius Constantinus, year 4, Hathyr 27, indiction 1. To the most magnificent heirs of Apion of glorious memory, former protopatricius, landowners also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own masters, the same most renowned men, the right of action and obligation, the Aurelii Samuel son of Victor, mother Sosanna, and Hareotes son of Phoibammon, mother Tsaeie, originating from the hamlet of Melitas in the Oxyrhynchite nome, with surety George, their pronoetes, son of the late Apollos, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites. We acknowledge that we have received from your magnificence, from here, already, on account of the sowing for the crops of the second indiction, eleven artabas of wheat by the cancellus measure, as follows: I, Hareotes, 6 artabas, and I, Samuel, the other 5 artabas, total 11 artabas of wheat; and these we agree to deliver to your magnificence at the time of the threshing of the second indiction, or else I, their surety, will pay on their behalf from my own resources. The note, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question we gave our assent. We, the Aurelii Hareotes and Samuel, agree to this as stated above. I, Papnouthios, wrote for them since they are illiterate. I, George, pronoetes, son of the late Apollos, the aforementioned, stand surety for the same Samuel and Hareotes in all respects as stated above. † ☧ Executed through me, Papnouthios. [verso] † Note of Hareotes and Samuel from the hamlet of Melitas, with surety George, pronoetes, son of Apollos: 11 artabas of wheat by the cancellus measure.