Undertaking by a boat captain to deliver wheat to Alexandria TM 21265OxyrhynchosJuni - Dez. 354

[column i] [… 6 lines lost …] [column ii] In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the 7th time and Constantius the most noble Caesar for the 3rd time, […] To the Aurelii Eulogios son of Eulogios and Diogenes son of Diogenes and […] and Dorotheos son of Thonios grandson of Pasion and Apoll[…], all councillors of the city of the Oxyrhynchites and overseers of the grain for Alexandria, from Aurelius Apphous son of Tithoes, from the Oxyrhynchite nome, captain of a boat […], with a guarantor for the delivery of the cargo and for producing in full the receipts, Aurelius Bernikianos, councillor, prytanis in office of the same city. We acknowledge, swearing the august divine oath of our masters Constantius Augustus and Constantius the most noble Caesar, I the captain, that I have received and loaded onto the aforesaid boat from the produce of the fortunate 13th new indiction new wheat, clean, unadulterated, not wetted and free of all fault, by the public measure, with the measuring ordered for this purpose, […] artabas; and the sample, carried intact and compared with the cargo, appeared correct, and the artabas were brought for weighing in succession […], and the xestes weighed 1 pound 3 ounces; and that I will carry the cargo down to the most splendid Alexandria and deliver it into the public granaries there in full number, and receive receipts for the delivery in the name of you the overseers; and I the guarantor, of my own free and voluntary will, that I stand surety for the aforesaid captain delivering the cargo […] [… lines lost …]