Advance of gold solidi to an estate gardener at Nesos Lachania TM 37511Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)Mitte VI

[…] [through Menas the slave, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own master, the same most praiseworthy] man, the [right of action] and [liability] […] [through you, the] most admirable Kyriakos, pronoetes. Aurelius Anoup son of Petronios, mother Maxima, phrontistes, gardener, from the hamlet of Nesos Lachania across from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, an estate of your magnificence, registered as a dependent of it, greetings. I acknowledge that I have received from your magnificence here and now, as an advance for the garden under my charge belonging to your magnificence, two gold solidi less 8 carats by the private standard, given to me through the same most admirable Kyriakos, pronoetes, total 2 gold solidi less 8 carats by the private standard, which, being free of all risk, I shall necessarily repay to your magnificence or to whoever lawfully makes the claim against me on its behalf, whenever it may wish to recover them, without delay and without any dispute, at the risk of all my property. The document of advance, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. † I, Aurelius Anoup, phrontistes, son of Petronios, the aforesaid, received as an advance the two gold solidi less 8 carats by the private standard of principal, and I shall repay whenever you wish, and everything is agreed by me as stated above. I, Aurelius Serenos son of the late Ptolemios, having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he is illiterate. † Through me, Anoup […]