Acknowledgement of receipt of two workers for irrigation machines by a farmer of Tholthis TM 22681Oxyrhynchos11. Okt. 582

[recto] † In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, greatest benefactor, Flavius Tiberius Constantinus, eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 8, in the consulship of the same our most pious master year 4, Phaophi 14, indiction 1. To the most magnificent heirs of Apion of glorious memory, landowners also here in the illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own masters, the same most renowned men, the right of action and liability, Aurelius Ioannes son of Apa Sion, mother Nonna, from the hamlet of Tholthis of the Oxyrhynchite nome, belonging to your magnificence, its registered farmer, greetings. Since there is now again need, for the estate irrigation machines under my charge on the side-river Kaianes, of two large workers (?), I came up to the city and asked your magnificence to order that they be provided to me through your [...] and at once your magnificence, taking forethought for the maintenance [...] [...] [verso] † Written acknowledgement of Ioannes son of Apa Sion from Tholthis, of receipt.