Oath of men nominated to deliver plough oxen to Syria TM 15987Oxyrhynchos253 - 256

[…] to […]ros alias Corneli[…] […] son of Hermogenes, his mother being Isis, […] and Diogenes […] his mother being […]dia, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, and landowners in the village of Senepta, and Dionys son of Horos, his mother being […], from the village of Mermertha, and Onnophris son of […], his mother being Tauris, from the village of Senekeleu, and Horos son of Ploution, his mother being Tapontoous, from the village of […]os, and Petseiris son of Neilos, his mother being Herais, from the village of Thosbis, and Harthonis, styled (?) after his mother Kopis (?), from the village of Nemerai, and Hermias, freedman of Horion, from Athychis, and Ammonas son of Didymos, of the Althaean deme, landowner in Takona, and Melas son of Ammonios, his mother being Ammonarion, from Teis, and Aouisanis son of P[…]is, his mother being Tamyrotion, from Seryphis, and Horos son of Ploution, his mother being Melanous, from the Iseion of Tryphon, and Thonis son of Psenamounis, his mother being Thomti alias Tanemgeus, from Sesphtha, and Titus Singonius Arrius Apolinarius alias Fronto, and however he is styled, landowner in Pela, all of us nominated by the village scribes (?) of each village to receive and deliver in Syria, wherever we may be ordered, plough oxen in accordance with what was written by his excellency the prefect Magnius Felix and Antonius Vitellianus the most eminent epistrategos, we swear by the Fortune of Valerian and Gallienus, the lords Caesars, that we have received oxen, 36 in number, choice and most suitable for ploughing, branded first (?) […] and that we have received for […] collected […] and expenses […] […]