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An acknowledgement in which Aurelius Phoibammon, an eirenarch from a village in the Hermopolite nome, confirms receiving advance payment from a woman, apparently connected with the late Ioannes of Hermopolis, for 25 baskets of dry hay, which he promises to deliver in Pauni of the eighth indiction. It dates from the 6th century AD.
A sargane was a woven basket or hamper used as a measure for hay. An eirenarch was a local police official responsible for keeping the peace in villages.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Kauf von Heu gegen Vorauszahlung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] τοῦ τῆς ἀρίστης μνήμης Ἰωάννου ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑρμουπολιτῶν Αὐρήλιος Φοιβάμμων[…]… […] μητρὸς Εὖτος εἰρηνάρχης ἀπὸ κώμης Τ…[…]…κ[…] τοῦ Ἑρμουπολιτο… χαίρειν· ὁμολογῶ ἐσχηκέναι καὶ πεπληρῶσθαι παρὰ τῆς σῆς ἀρετῆς τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους συμπεφωνημένης τελείας τιμῆς χόρτου…
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