Surety by the priest Iosephios for the goldsmith Kollouthos TM 18424Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 535

☧ 643 ☧ ☧ In the consulship of Flavius Belisarius, the most glorious, Epeiph 29, of the fourteenth indiction. To Flavius Apollos, the respected riparius of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, from Iosephios, priest of the holy oratory of apa Chimachaelios, landholder at the village of Aphrodite in the same nome, who writes slowly, son of Iakybios of pious memory, formerly priest, greetings. I acknowledge, swearing by God Almighty and the divine and heavenly fortune of our master of the inhabited world, victorious in all things, Flavius Iustinianus, the eternal Augustus and Emperor, that I stand surety and have undertaken responsibility for the residence and appearance of Aurelius Kollouthos son of Kyriakos, goldsmith, on condition that he remain in our village, and that he render every appearance to the same village and in no way leave it, but if he is sought, I will produce him and hand him over to it, outside holy precincts and divine images and the holy church, and that he will be found under whatever protection in a public place, outside military or clerical or monastic […] status; but if he should be taken away and sought […] [… lines lost …]