Advance sale of flax stalks to a victorious athlete TM 21043Oxyrhynchos30. Jan. 315

[1] […] [2] Aurelius Eusebios son of Plotion, his mother being Theonilla, from the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, to Aurelius Thonios son of Eros, from the same city, victor in sacred games, victor many times, paradoxos, greeting. I acknowledge that I have received from you here the full price of 6 bundles of raw flax stalks, which flax stalks, clean, I will of necessity deliver to you in the fields in the month of Pauni of the present 9th and 7th year, without any delay or evasion; otherwise I will pay you, for the time overrun, double the price that will then prevail, as is established, the right of execution being yours against me and against all my property. This note of hand, written in two copies, is valid wherever produced and for anyone producing it on your behalf, and having been asked by you I have agreed. In the year after the consulship of Rufius Volusianus and Petronius Annianus, viri clarissimi, Mecheir 5. […] I received the full price […] […]