Surety for a donkey-driver in the service of an illustrious landowner TM 20871Herakleopolis446

A surety bond from Herakleopolis dated AD 446, in which Aurelius Anoubion, a dung-carrier, swears an imperial oath to an illustrious landowner that he guarantees a donkey-driver from the same city. The guaranteed man is to fulfil his post in the landowner's service and not abandon it; the rest of the document is lost.

In English machine translation

Such sureties guaranteed that a worker on a great estate would remain at his post. The term translated 'post' (chōra) refers to his assigned position or duty.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bürgschaftsurkunde). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.