Loan of wheat by sitologoi of Karanis from receivers of the harbour of Leukogion TM 12065Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptOctober 19, 316 A.D.

The Aurelii Heron son of Ptolemaios, with a guarantor, for payment on behalf of his full brother Aurelius Isidoros; and Apphys son of Pannes, with a guarantor, likewise for payment on behalf of Aurelius […] son of Apion; and Ammonas son of Papeeis, with a guarantor, likewise for payment on behalf of Aurelius Palemon son of Palinios; and Pannous son of Timotheos, with a guarantor, likewise for payment on behalf of Aurelius Herakleios son of […]eros; the four, from the village of Karanis, sitologoi of the same village for the produce of the fourth indiction, to the Aurelii Ptolemaios son of Ptollarion and Apolinarios son of Paeianos, both from the same village of Karanis, receivers of the harbour of Leukogion, greetings. We acknowledge by this handwritten bond that we have received from you as a loan 417 artabas of wheat, (wheat) 417 (artabas), by the public measure, the modius, which 417 artabas of wheat we shall necessarily repay, each standing surety for the others, on the following 28th of the present month Phaophi in the harbour of Leukogion without any delay; and in case of demand you shall have the right of execution against us and against our aforementioned guarantors and against whichever of us you choose and against all our property, as if by a court judgment; and having been asked the formal question we have agreed. We, the Aurelii Apphys and the guarantor […]is, and Heron and the guarantor Isidoros, and Ammonas and the guarantor Palemon, acknowledge that we have received, together with our aforementioned partner Pannous, the 417 artabas of wheat and we shall repay them, each standing surety for the others, on the appointed date as stated above. I, Apphys son of Pannes, wrote also on behalf of the others, who are illiterate. We, the Aurelii Pannes (?), with the guarantor Herakleios: I acknowledge that I have received, together with my aforementioned partners, the 417 artabas of wheat and we shall repay them, each standing surety for the others, on the appointed date as stated above. I, Aurelius Ision son of Paesis, wrote on behalf of them, who are illiterate. In the consulship of Caecinius Sabinus and Vettius Rufinus, the most illustrious, Phaophi 22.