Undertaking by two villagers of Ophis to Flavius Apion not to steal or harbour robbers TM 22076OxyrhynchusA.D. 612 ?

[recto] † In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour, in the reign of our most divine and most pious master, the greatest benefactor, Flavius Heraclius, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 3, Phaophi 28, indiction 1. To Flavius Apion, the all-praiseworthy and most magnificent former consul and patrician, landowner also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own master, the same all-praiseworthy man, the right of action and liability, the Aurelii Phib son of Dioskoros and Apollos son of Anoup, mother Philoxene, from the village of Ophis in the Oxyrhynchite nome, whose pagarchy is held by your glorious house. I acknowledge to your magnificence, through those who belong to it, that if at any season or time we are found to have stolen either machine equipment or oxen, or to have committed any theft whatsoever, or to have harboured robbers, we agree to pay to your magnificence for each offence 24 gold solidi, at the risk of ourselves and our property. The agreement, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † The joint (?) of our names agrees with us as stated above. I, Ioannes, wrote on their behalf, as they are illiterate. ☧ Executed through me, Ioannes. [verso] † Agreement of the men from the village of Ophis in the Oxyrhynchite nome. †