Loan of a gold solidus repayable in oil TM 20308Kellis (Oasis Magna)386

[recto] Aurelius Kapiton son of Kapiton, from the village of Kellis, residing in the hamlet of Thio of the Mothite nome, to Aurelius Syros son of Psais, from the same village of the same nome, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received and borrowed from you for my own personal and pressing need one gold solidus, total 1 solidus, on condition that I shall deliver to you as its price at the season of the […] of the 15th indiction, at the new moon of Epeiph, 5 maria of oil, total 5 maria of oil, by the Ibitic chous measure, of the fifteenth indiction, without dispute. This security, written in a single copy with the subscription of the person signing on my behalf, is valid, guaranteed and lawful as if deposited in a public archive, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of our master Honorius the most noble Caesar and of Euodius the most illustrious. I, Aurelius Kapiton, the aforementioned, have received the gold solidus on condition that I shall deliver […] to you as its price in the month of Pauni of the 15th indiction 5 maria of oil, total 5 maria, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Andreas, village scribe of Kellis, who also wrote the body of the text, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters, having been asked. [verso] Aurelius Kapiton, for 5 maria of oil.