Oath to guard a guarantor and deliver him to the prefect's office TM 15253Oxyrhynchos24. März 319

[2] In the consulship of our masters Constantine Augustus for the 5th time and Licinius the most noble Caesar for the 1st time. To Valerius Ammonianus also called Gerontius, logistes, through Herminos, deputy strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Horion son of Alexander, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, and Ammonas son of Paol, from the village of Dositheou in the 8th pagus. We acknowledge, swearing the august divine oath of our masters the Emperors and Caesars, that we have received K...ymos (?), guarantor of Chari...ne, slave of Ploution, on condition that we keep him under guard and watch night and day until we present him to the office of his excellency the prefect Valerius Ziper, and that we will bring documents of the presentation, so that we may be blamed in nothing; otherwise may we be liable to the divine oath. In the same consulship, Phamenoth 28. (2nd hand) We, the Aurelii Horion and Ammonas, have received the person and will present him as stated above. I, Aurelius Horion, wrote on behalf of the other, as he does not know letters.