Advance sale of 134 bundles of reeds by a vinedresser TM 16144Hermopolis8. Okt. 614

[recto] † In the name of the holy and life-giving and consubstantial Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit. † In the reign of our most divine master Flavius Heraclius, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, year four, Phaophi 11, third indiction. † Aurelius Petros son of Paulos, his mother being Agnoia (?), vinedresser from the hamlet of Tanamey (?) in the Hermopolite nome, † to Flavius Victor, the most esteemed son of Kyros of most excellent memory, from the city of the Hermopolites, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and been paid in full by you the complete and proper price of 134 bundles of reeds, total 134 bundles of reeds, which I will deliver to you in the month of Mecheir of the present third indiction, in new, good […] and choice reeds, of the […] reeds […] each bundle, and of the folded (?) reeds […], without excuse. If I do not deliver the same reeds within the same term, I will pay you for their price 4 gold solidi, at my own risk and from the resources of all my property. This document is valid and binding, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Petros son of Paulos, the aforesaid, have issued this document as stated above. † I, Aurelius Ka[…], wrote on his behalf because he does not know letters. † I, […]kouthos son of Apollos, reader (?), from Hermopolis, bear witness to the document, having heard it from the party who issued it. † † I, Aurelius Josephis, from Hermopolis, bear witness to the document, having heard it from the party who issued it. † † Written through me […] † [verso] † Written acknowledgement for 134 bundles of reeds, made by Petros […]