Surety for the appearance of a kephalaiotes before the governor's office TM 22359Ptolemais (Oberägypten)7. Aug. 372

[recto] To Flavius Isidoros and Flavius Theodoros, officials of the staff of the governorship of the Thebaid, from Aurelius Apion, of the former magistrates, councillor of Ptolemais. I acknowledge, swearing by the divine and heavenly fortune of our all-conquering masters Valentinian, Valens and Gratian, the eternal Augusti, that I have stood surety for Aurelius Sarapion son of Kastor, of the kephalaiotai of the thirteenth indiction, on condition that he present himself at the office and make his appearance; and if he fails to do so, I myself will fill his place on his behalf, or I shall be liable to the divine oath and to the danger attached to it; and having been asked the formal question, I gave my assent. In the consulship of Modestus, most illustrious prefect of the sacred praetorium, ⟨and Arintheus, most illustrious⟩, Mesore 14. I, Aurelius Apion, the aforementioned, stand surety for the aforementioned Sarapion on condition that he present himself at the office as stated above. [verso] Surety for Sarapion through Apion son of Nikantinoos, kephalaiotes of Ptolemais.