Labour contract (paramone) with advance of one gold solidus TM 35448OxyrhynchosV

A fragmentary contract from Oxyrhynchus, 5th century AD, in which Aurelius Martyrios, a stonecutter, acknowledges receiving an advance of one gold solidus from a Flavius connected with a landowner, on condition that he remain and work for him, apparently as a tarsikarios (weaver of Tarsian-style cloth). He undertakes to repay the advance without delay, with his property as security.

In English machine translation

A paramone is a contract binding a worker to remain in service, often in return for an advance or loan. Much of the formula is restored by the editor, and the relationship between the stonecutter named and the weaving work is unclear from the surviving text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Paramonè (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.