Sworn declaration of village elders withdrawing charges against a dyke overseer TM 15846Peenno (Oxyrhynchites)80 - 81

[… lines lost …] […] To Hermophilos […] from Orsenouphis son of Dioskoros and Psosneus son of Psenmeinis and Pennamis son of Amenneus, (being among) the elders, with others, of the village of Peenno in the Middle toparchy. With regard to the report submitted to Claudius Herakleios, strategos, by us and our fellow elders against Diogenes, overseer of dykes, concerning his having taken from fifty-one men 4 drachmas each so that they should not perform the five-naubion work on the public dykes, and concerning his having likewise shielded nine other men so that they should not do their work: when you asked for the names of the aforesaid, we declared from among them the names of thirteen men, who also stated in writing to the strategos that they had given nothing either to Diogenes or to his people or to anyone else in order not to work on the dykes. And since you are asking for the names of the rest, we declare, swearing by the fortune of Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, that we are unable to prove any of the things set out in the aforesaid report. If we swear truly, may it be well with us; if falsely, the opposite. Year 3 of Imperator [Titus Caesar] Vespasianus [Augustus] […]