Receipt for annual salary paid to a tabularius of the express post TM 17557Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Province of EgyptFebruary 14, 564 A.D.

† In the […] after the consulship of Flavius Basilius, the most illustrious, Mecheir 19, indiction 12 […] To the most admirable lord, curator of the public accounting office of this city of the Oxyrhynchites, Aurelius Victor, tabularius of the express post (oxys dromos), son of Phoibammon, mother Maria, signing below in my own hand, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and been paid in full by your admirableness the four solidi […] solidus less 5 carats on the private standard, which are given to me by you each year on account of our salary for the two trades, of dyers and carpet-makers, which I have hitherto performed, [and the] service I perform as tabularius of the express post, and for the present twelfth indiction, that is, up to the fifth of the month Epeiph of the same present twelfth indiction, indiction 12 […], and for your security I have made for you this receipt of full payment, which is valid, written in a single copy, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Victor son of Phoibammon, the aforementioned … […]