Oath of fishermen to work the marsh-thicket at Theadelphia TM 10138Theadelphia (Arsinoites)31. März 154

To Demetrios also called Harpokration, strategos of the divisions of Themistes and Polemon. Zenamounis son of Petereus, from the village of Berenikis Thesmophorou of the division of Polemon, and Petesouchos son of Simos, from the quarter of the Sacred Gate, and Sarapion son of Alexas, we three fishermen and lessees (?) of the marsh-thicket of the village of Theadelphia. We swear by the fortune of the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius that we will work in the aforesaid marsh-thicket from the day written below, which is the 5th of the present month Pharmouthi, and that Zenamounis will produce his own children for fishing and selling, and Petesouchos likewise; and that together with the aforementioned we will produce the remaining fishermen who work in the same marsh-thicket. If we do not work thus together with the remaining fishermen, we will pay from our own means the rent of the same marsh-thickets for the present 17th year, or may we be liable to the oath. Written through the record office of Theadelphia.