Receipt of Advance Payment for Vegetable Seed

- - - apart from other things that Hatres owes the same person on the basis of another contract. Subscriber of the acknowledging party is Melanas, son of Menches, about x years of age, with a scar - - - I, Hatres, son of - - -, of Persian descent, acknowledge having received from Marcus Antonius Nuagros (?), belonging to the discharged (soldiers), the price of four artabas of new and pure vegetable seed, (measured) with the six-choenix dromos-measure of my brother Orsenouphis, which (artabas) I shall deliver (10) in the month of Soterios of the current year-apart from other things that I owe the same person on the basis of another contract —, as stated above. Melanas, son of Menches, has written for him because he is illiterate. I, Marcus Antonius Nuagros (?), have given the price of the 4 artabas as stated above. (Registered on the xth of the month - -) of the fifteenth year of Emperor Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus.