Loan of seed wheat from a prefect of Egypt to a villager of Phebichis TM 33625Phebichis (Herakleopolites, Ägypten)307 - 381

[recto] To Flavius Kyr[…], former(?) prefect of Egypt, through The[…], [from the village of] Phebichis in the 11th pagus of the Herakleopo[lite nome], Aurelius Maximos son of Melas, from the same Phebichis, greeting. I acknowledge that I have received and had measured out to me from you, for the sowing of the auspicious coming 8th indiction, of pure wheat, together with the interest of one half (hemiolia) already included, eighteen and a half and a quarter artabas, 18 3/4 artabas, which I shall of necessity, after the new harvest, return from the new crops at the threshing floors of the same village by Mesore 30, by the tenth-measure with which I myself received it, without dispute. And if, when the aforementioned threshing floor has been agreed upon, I do not make the repayment, I shall pay you also for the overdue time the hemiolia on them, you having the right of execution upon me and upon all my property. This contract, written in a single clean copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. [… lines lost …] [verso] † Maximos son of Melas […]