A signed acknowledgement by Aurelius Pekysis, a villager of Pankylis Apatou, that he owes 2 1/2 artabas of wheat as rent for land he will farm to Gaius Julius Leukadios, a town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, acting through his steward Neiketes. He promises to repay in Epeiph; a scribe signed for him because he was illiterate. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 360.
In English machine translation
[recto]
After the consulship of Flavii Eusebius and Hypatius, the most illustrious.
To Gaius Julius Leukadios […] …malanos(?), former prytanis, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Neiketes, steward,
Aurelius Pekysis son of Papnouthis, from your hamlet of Pankylis Apatou, greetings. I acknowledge that I owe you and have in my keeping, on account of the rent due for the land which I shall farm in the third indiction, 2 1/2 artabas of clean grain, which wheat, new, clean, unadulterated and sieved, by the tenth-measure of the estate, I shall of necessity repay to you in the month of Epeiph of the present year 36 […], you having the right of execution against me and against all my possessions. This handwritten bond, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
I, Aurelius Pekysis son of Papnouthis, owe and have in my keeping on account of the rent 2 1/2 artabas of grain and I shall repay as stated above. I, Kattas son of Eustathios, wrote on his behalf since he does not know letters.
[verso]
Through Pekysis from Pankylis: grain, 2 1/2 artabas.
Year 36 refers to the Oxyrhynchite era count. The landowner's further name is damaged and uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Acknowledgement of Indebtedness). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.