Sworn report on deliveries of meat for the 12th indiction TM 16894Kesmuchis (Oxyrhynchites)27. Juli 338

To Flavius Valerianus, beneficiarius of the staff of the prefect of Egypt, from Aurelius Kallistos son of Aborios, from the village of Kesmouchis in the 8th pagus of the Oxyrhynchite nome. To your inquiry about the liturgy of meat being made over as a corporate charge (?), which was entrusted to us, for the produce of the 12th indiction: in kind we have delivered in pigs 570 pounds of meat, and in money, in papers (?), 30 pounds of meat at the rate of 2 talents and 2,000 drachmas. Accordingly we acknowledge this, swearing the venerable divine oath of all our invincible masters the Emperor and the Caesars, that we have told no falsehood, or may we be liable to the divine oath and to the danger attending it, as stated above. It is as follows: To Eudaimon, praepositus, in money, 30 pounds. In the consulship of Flavius Ursus and Polemius, the most illustrious, Mesore 3. I, Aurelius Kallistos, have submitted this. I, Aurelius […]ros, wrote on his behalf, as he does not know letters.