Apprenticeship of a boy to a linen-weaver TM 16900Oxyrhynchos15. Sept. 264

Aurelius Hermias son of Ptolemaios, former agoranomos of the city of the Oxyrhynchites, and Aurelius Dioskoros son of Athenodoros, from the same city, linen-weaver, mutually agree: Hermias, that he has handed over to the master his own son for instruction in the said craft for a period of five years from the present month Thoth of the current 12th year, on condition that the father shall provide the boy to the master every day from sunrise to sunset, fed and clothed by the father, performing all the tasks entrusted to him by the master that pertain to the said craft; for six months for the sake of instruction without wages, and for the remaining time receiving as wages: for the first half-year 2 obols daily, for another year 6 obols daily, for another year 10 obols daily, for another year 2 drachmas, and for the last year 2 drachmas 4 obols daily. The same Hermias acknowledges that he has received here as an advance from Dioskoros 400 drachmas of silver, which he will repay at the end of the period. For whatever days the boy is idle during the time in which he receives wages, or, which heaven forbid, is ill, he shall remain with the master for an equal number of days, working without wages. The boy shall receive as holidays for festivals: in Tybi and Pachon, at the Amesysia, 7 days; at the Sarapia, 2 days. For they consent to these terms, and the same master shall do each thing, and at the end of the period he shall hand over the boy fully practising the said craft, just as he himself knows it, none of the contracting parties being permitted to transgress what is written above. The agreement is valid, and having questioned one another they consented. Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Pius Felix Augustus, Thoth 18. I, Aurelius Dioskoros son of Athenodoros, consent as stated above and, having been asked, I agreed.