Oath of an overseer on receiving wheat and barley for transport to the Small Oasis TM 16557OxyrhynchosJan. - Aug. 305

In the consulship of our lords Constantius and Maximianus, the most illustrious Caesars, for the 5th time. To Aurelius Horion, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Tryphon son of Thonis, former exegetes, councillor of the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, overseer (epimeletes) of wheat and barley being transported to the Small Oasis. I swear by the Fortune of our lords the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and Maximianus the most illustrious Caesars that I have received from the Aurelii Sabinus and his associates, receivers and sealers of the granaries of the village of Kerkeura in the middle toparchy of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the produce of the nineteenth and 18th and 11th year, of most pure wheat by the public measure 300 artabas, total 300 artabas, and from the Aurelii Kiarouris and Loutis and their associates, receivers and sealers of the granaries of the city of Oxyrhynchus, in exchange for grain of the produce of the past 20th ⟨and 19th⟩ and 12th year, of most pure barley likewise by the public measure 150 artabas, total 150 artabas, which wheat and barley I shall carry up to the Small Oasis and shall deliver to the receivers there in full count, and shall bring written receipts of the delivery, so that I may be blamed in nothing, or may I be liable to the divine oath […] […]