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A sworn declaration of surety addressed to Flavius Olympiodoros, praepositus of the first pagus of the Hermopolite nome, by Aurelius Mouses, a deacon of the catholic church at the village of Pois. He guarantees that the brothers Azarion and Elias, sons of Machon, will farm their father's allotment from the 6th to the 7th indiction. Written in AD 346.
The praepositus pagi was the official in charge of a rural district (pagus) in 4th-century Egypt. The deacon is one of the earliest attested clergy of a village 'catholic church'; the text breaks off after the terms of cultivation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Security for coloni). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου Αὐγούστου τὸ δ καὶ Κώνσταντος Αὐγούστου τὸ γ Φλαυίῳ Ὀλυμπιοδώρῳ τῷ καὶ Ἀσυνκριτίῳ πραιποσίτῳ α πάγου νομοῦ Ἑρμοπολίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Μουσῆτος Ὥρου ἀπὸ Σαιτῶν πόλεως διακόνου καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας κώμης Πώεως τοῦ αὐτοῦ πάγου. ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὴν …
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