Receipt for cattle and cash advances for vineyard irrigation at Seryphis TM 22197Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of EgyptOctober 29, 221 A.D.

[recto] Aurelius Philotas, son of Petemounis, his mother being Taherakleides, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, residing at Seryphis, to Aurelia Herakleia, daughter of Diogenes, former exegetes of the same city, through Aurelius Hermaios, her guardian (?), greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from you as an advance, for the service of the irrigation of the vineyard estate called Nesos near Seryphis which I hold from you on lease, in accordance with the lease I hold, cattle at an assessed value of 1,500 drachmas; and further that I have received, out of the 1,500 drachmas which the same lease states that I am to receive from you likewise as an advance in instalments, the 500 drachmas of the first payment for the current month Hathyr; and that I will return everything in accordance with the lease, and the cattle on the terms written concerning them, the same lease remaining valid, as well as the other lease I hold for the irrigation of another vineyard estate of yours, on all the terms each contains, the right of execution being against me and against all my property. This document, written in two copies, is valid; and having been asked whether this is done rightly and properly, I acknowledged it. Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti, Hathyr 2. I, Aurelius Philotas son of Petemounis, have received, as stated above. [verso] Assessed value of cattle of Nesos 1,500 drachmas […]