Advance sale of barley to the steward Paulos TM 17642Hermopolites14. Febr. 507

[recto] † After the consulship of Flavii Sabinianus and Theodorus, the most illustrious, Mecheir 20, indiction [...]. Aurelii Kornelios son of Peues, mother Obi..., and Pinoution son of Lilous, and Sois son of Ioannes, from the hamlet of Nomenios in the district of Eros of the Hermopolite nome, to Aurelius Paulos, steward (pronoetes), from Hermopolis, greetings. We acknowledge that we have been paid by you the full price agreed between us [...] of 8 artabas of barley, total 8 artabas of barley, which we will measure out to you in the month of Epeiph of the coming first indiction, in new, clean, sifted barley, by the Athenian measure, at the threshing floors of the same village, without delay, all our property being pledged to you for this debt as if by a court judgment. The document is valid and guaranteed, and having been asked the formal question, we have agreed. We, Aurelii Kornelios son of Peues and Sois son of Ioannes and Pinoution son of Lilous, the aforementioned, have received and been paid the price of the 8 (artabas) of barley and will deliver at the proper time as stated above. We, Aurelii Sarapion son of Pekysis and Horos [...] and Anouthes son of Pachymios, [the three], witness the document, [having heard it from] the parties. I, Aurelius [Pinoution son of Lil]ous, having been asked, wrote [on their behalf] since they do not know letters. [† Written by] me, Pinoution. [verso] Handwritten bond of Kornelios [...]