Advance sale of 30 artabas of wheat by the soldier Flavius Samuel TM 21384Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, Egypt527 A.D.

☧ After the consulship of Flavius Olybrius, the most glorious, […] of the sixth indiction. Flavius Samuel, son of Kollouthos, his mother being Kyra, soldier of the regiment (numerus) of Ptolemais, from the village of Tanyaithis in the Apollonopolite nome Minor, to Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, greetings. † While all my previous written agreements remain valid, according to the terms of each agreement and all their stipulations, I acknowledge also now that I have received and been paid in full by you the complete price of 30 artabas of clean wheat in grain, total 30 artabas of wheat, and I am ready to deliver these to you at the time of the harvest, God willing, of the coming seventh indiction, by the measure of Viktor son of Paulos, actuarius of the village of Thmonachthe. If I do not deliver the aforesaid measure in time as written above, on condition that these too shall be charged upon my aforesaid farmland held from you, together with the other previous ones, by way of mortgage as security until delivery of the aforesaid measure, without any dispute. I have drawn up this document for you as security, with my signature, and having been asked the formal question I assented. I, Flavius Samuel, soldier, the aforesaid, agree, and I will deliver to you at the time as aforesaid. † I, Aurelius Phoibammon son of Hermauos, witness the contract, having heard it from the party who made it. † I, Phoibammon son of Psaios, priest, witness the ⟨contract⟩, having heard it from the party who made it. † Written by me, Abraamios son of Apollos …