Loan of seed wheat to a registered farmer of the estate of Dioskoros TM 22160Oxyrhynchos28. Nov. 553

[recto] In the reign of our most divine and most pious master Flavius Justinian, eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 27, in the 12th year after the consulship of Flavius Basilius, vir clarissimus, Choiak 2, indiction 2, in the city of Oxyrhynchus. † To Flavius Dioskoros, the most eloquent scholasticus and advocate of the forum of the greatest court of the most illustrious and most eminent prefects of the sacred praetorium, son of Marcellinus of glorious memory, landowner also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through you, the reverend Stephanos, his administrator, Aurelius Victor son of Petros, mother Annis, originating from the hamlet of Likeous in the Oxyrhynchite nome, belonging to the estate of your Learning, registered farmer of the same, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from your Learning as a loan, from the produce of the present second indiction, for the sowing of the landowner's arouras under my charge, for the crops of the third indiction, four artabas of wheat, which were also given to me through the same reverend Stephanos, total 4 artabas of wheat, and I agree to deliver these to you clean and sieved, by the measure by which I received them, and I will without fail repay them to you together with my rent in the month of Pauni of the second indiction, for the crops of the third, at the risk of all my property. This note, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Aurelius Victor son […] […] […] [… lines lost …] [verso] † Note of Victor son of Petros from the hamlet of Likeous, for 4 artabas of wheat on account of […] sowing of the 2nd indiction.