Acknowledgement of a wheat loan to be paid into the public granary TM 21294Oxyrhynchos26. Nov. 103

[recto] Diogenes also called Sarapion, son of Sarapion son of Diogenes, his mother being Didyme daughter of Euphranor, of those from the city of Oxyrhynchus, Persian of the epigone, to Ammonios son of Sarapion son of Ammonios, of those from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have and have had measured out to me by you 170 artabas of wheat, total 170 artabas of wheat, as capital, which I shall measure on your behalf into the public granary, and I shall deliver to you the deposit receipt for it, free of all expense, in the month of Pauni of the present seventh year of Trajan Caesar the lord, without any delay. If I do not measure it, I shall pay it back with half as much again, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property as if by a court judgment, without your being prejudiced in the execution regarding what I owed to your brother Pausanias, now deceased. This note in my own hand, of Diogenes also called Sarapion, is valid wherever it is produced and for anyone who produces it. Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Hathyr 29. [verso] Note of hand of Diogenes also called Sarapion, exegetes. 170 artabas of wheat.