Receipt for a large water-wheel part from the estate of Arcadia TM 21289Oxyrhynchos6. Dez. 440

[…] In the consulship of Flavius Anatolius, vir clarissimus, Choiak 10. To […]os, the respected councillor of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, [most illustrious administrator] of the estate of our most divine and most celebrated mistress Arcadia, [Aurelius Paulos son of] Apphous, from the hamlet of Kalpouniou of the same nome, registered farmer [enapographos] of the same most divine house, [greetings]. Since need has now again arisen at the master's water-wheel under my charge, [called] 'of the New (?)' [which irrigates the vine]yard and the arable land, for a large machine-worker (?), I came to [the city and] asked that [it] be provided [to me], and your excellence immediately [provided] […] [the same new worker], suitable, of 36 skytalai (?) […] and in the present month of Choiak of the present ninth [indiction] […] for the completion of all the machine [parts] […] I acknowledge that, having received this, I will keep to the irrigation […] [and will pay the rents faithfully] and obey in all matters pertaining. [And as proof of receipt] of the same large worker I have issued this handwritten deed, [which is valid, written in a single copy, and having been asked the formal question] I have assented. I, Aurelius Paulos son of Apphous, [the aforesaid, issued the handwritten deed] for the large worker, and it is in agreement […] […] I, Sarapion son of […]ion, wrote on his behalf at his request, [as he is illiterate]. […]phanos […]arios of the city of the Oxyrhynchites […] […] Flavius Ph…mi, steward (pronoetes) […] […]