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A sworn undertaking addressed to the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome by Aurelius Mousis, a landholder of Sinary, who has been nominated by the village scribe to transport barley to Alexandria for shipment to the emperor Caracalla's army in Syria. He swears by the emperor's fortune to take up the task at once and names a guarantor from the same village.
The emperor is Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus), whose 25th regnal year fits the date of 216-217, during his eastern campaign against Parthia. The end of the document is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Undertaking on Oath). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀνουβίωνι στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου Αὐρήλιος Μοῦσις χρηματίζων μητρὸς Ἡρᾶτος γεουχῶν ἐν κώμῃ Σιναρύ. εἰσδοθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ τῶν τόπων κωμογραμματέως εἰς τὸ κατενέγκαι κριθὴν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδριαν πεμπομένην εἰς Συρίαν ἱερῷ στρατεύματι τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Αὐτοκράτορος Σεουήρου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐτυχ…
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