Boat captain's sworn undertaking to cleanse a cargo of wheat for Alexandria TM 140151Oxyrhynchos29. Aug. - 7. Sept. 372

In the consulship of Flavius Modestus, the most illustrious prefect of the sacred praetorium, and Flavius Arintheus, the most illustrious, Thoth […]. To the Aurelii Dioskoros son of Eulogios, Petros son of Agathinos, Agathinos son of Didymos, Sarapion son of Ploutarchos, Hierax son of Serenos and Timagenes son of Serenos, all councillors of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, curators of the grain for Alexandria, from Aurelius Elias son of Thonios, from the Oxyrhynchite nome, captain of the boat of Theon, of the numerus of the staff of the most illustrious dux. In accordance with the written undertaking which I made for the cargo of wheat that I received, of the auspicious first new indiction, from the same Oxyrhynchite nome, I acknowledge, swearing the venerable divine oath of our masters Valentinian, Valens and Gratian, eternal Augusti, that I have taken over the cleansing of the grain from the landowners who loaded it, on condition that, if it should happen, which may it not, that any action or any other complaint of impurity arise from the higher authority on the pretext of the cleansing of the same cargo, I the captain shall bear whatever results from this, so that you may be blamed in no respect; otherwise may I be liable to the divine oath. I, Aurelius Elias son of Thonios, swore the divine oath and have received the cleansing as stated above. I, Aurelius Thonios son of Ammonios, wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters.