Surety for a registered field guard given to Flavius Apion TM 22685Oxyrhynchos28. Juli 568

[recto] † In the reign and consulship of our most divine and most pious master Flavius Justinus, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year 3, Mesore 4, at the beginning of indiction 2 (?), in the city of Oxyrhynchus. † To Flavius Apion, the all-renowned and most magnificent former ordinary consul and patrician, landowner also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, his servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own master, the same all-renowned man, the right of action and liability, Georgios, deacon, son of the late Apa Horos, also a deacon, his mother being Sara, originating from the estate of Meskanounis of the Oxyrhynchite nome belonging to your magnificence, its registered farmer, greetings. I acknowledge of my own free will and deliberate choice, swearing the divine and venerable oath, that I stand surety and take responsibility before your magnificence, through those who belong to it, for Aurelius Onnophris, son of Solomon, his mother being […], originating from the hamlet of Megalou Chorion of the same nome, he too being its registered field guard, on condition that he remain continuously and live on his estate with all quietness and proper conduct, and answer for all things concerning his person, that is, the status of a registered worker, and […] [verso] Surety given by Georgios, deacon, son of Apa Horos