Receipt of a chief river-worker for wages for embankment work TM 21140Hermopolis5. Mai 410

[recto] After the consulship of our masters Honorius for the 8th time and Theodosius for the 3rd time, the eternal Augusti, Pachon 10. To Flavius Hermaion, most illustrious, former defensor, in charge of the embankment near Kleopatra, from Aurelius Syros son of Antas, his mother being Tabonis, aged about 55, with a scar on the forefinger of the left hand, chief river-worker, residing in Hermopolis the Great. I acknowledge that I have been paid in full by you the wages for 1,055 1/2 naubia up to Pachon 10 of the 8th (?) indiction, […] Abanis (?) for the same embankment, and for your security I have issued to you this acknowledgement, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. I, Aurelius Syros son of Antas, the aforementioned river-worker, have issued the acknowledgement, having been paid in full the wages of the aforementioned 1,055 1/2 naubia, as stated above. I, Aurelius […], brother of Besarion, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters, and […] was written through me. [verso] Acknowledgement of Syros, chief river-worker, […] the wages for 1,055 1/2 naubia up to Pachon 10 of the indiction.