Receipt by estate farmers for a new water-wheel axle TM 16595Oxyrhynchos19. Okt. 469

[recto] In the consulship of Flavii Zeno and Marcianus, the most illustrious, Phaophi 22, 8th indiction. To Flavia Kyria, the most illustrious and most noble landowner in the splendid and most splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, the Aurelii Pasoerios son of Kornelios and Ioannes son of Phoibammon, registered farmers from the hamlet of Chaira, an estate of your admirableness, of the same nome. Since there has now again arisen a need, for the landowner's water-machine under our charge called Pso, which irrigates arable land, of one axle, we came up to the city and asked your splendour that this be provided, and at once your nobility provided us with the said new, satisfactory irrigating axle for the replenishment of the machine's equipment. Having received it on this present day, which is Phaophi the twenty-second of the eighth indiction, for the cultivation of the ninth indiction, we further agree on mutual security to carry out the irrigations and the supply of water blamelessly. This single handwritten agreement, written, is valid, and having been asked the formal question we have agreed. We, the Aurelii Pasoerios son of Kornelios and Ioannes son of Phoibammon, have made this handwritten agreement, having received the new axle, and everything is satisfactory to us as stated above. I, Aurelius Sarapammon son of Theon, wrote on their behalf since they are illiterate. ☧ […] [verso] ☧ Handwritten agreement for one axle […]