Contract for a substitute in the service of a symmachos TM 10411Karanis (Arsinoites)19. Okt. 297

[…] from the quarter of the Bithynians of Isis (?) to Aurelius Heron son of Ptolemaios from the village of Karanis, greetings. Since […] in your place […] the service of the symmachos (auxiliary), and I have received from you for the wage and settlement payment the 3 talents of silver agreed between us, therefore I hereby acknowledge that I have received the same aforesaid 3 talents of silver and the sword, and that I will fulfil the service in your place blamelessly, and I will remain there in the same auxiliary service until I obtain discharge, being content with this aforesaid settlement payment; and neither of us has authority to change any of these terms or to transgress any of what is written here in any way. I have hereby provided as guarantor Aurelius Dios son of Polion from the same quarter of the Bithynians of Isis (?), who, being present, has consented to this agreement, because we have made our arrangements with each other on these terms. Having questioned each other, we have agreed. Year 2 of our lord Lucius Domitius Domitianus Pius Felix Augustus, Phaophi 22. I, Aurelius Heron son of Ptolemaios from the village of Karanis, have agreed to all the aforesaid and will transgress nothing, as aforesaid, and having been asked I have agreed. I, Aurelius Chairemon, wrote on his behalf at his request, as he is illiterate. I, Aurelius Dios, have stood surety for Heron (?) as aforesaid.