Promise of good behaviour by two chief guards of Pleein to Flavius Apion TM 44692Oxyrhynchos27. Okt. 612

† In the name of the Lord and Master Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour. In the reign of our most divine and most pious master, the greatest benefactor, Flavius Heraclius, the eternal Augustus and Imperator, year two, Phaophi 30, indiction 1. To Flavius Apion, the all-praiseworthy and most magnificent former consul and patrician, landowner also here in the splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Menas, servant, who makes the stipulation and acquires for his own master, the same all-praiseworthy man, the right of action and liability, the Aurelii Apollos son of Anoup and Herkot son of Apollos, from the village of Pleein of the Oxyrhynchite nome, which is under the pagarchy of your magnificence. We acknowledge to your magnificence that if at any time or season we are found to have stolen irrigation-machine equipment or oxen, or to have committed any theft whatsoever, or to have harboured robbers, we shall pay to your magnificence, through those who belong to it, for each offence 24 gold solidi, exacted in deed and in effect at the risk of ourselves and our property. This agreement, written in a single copy, is valid, and having been asked the formal question we gave our assent. † We, the group of the names, agree to this agreement as set out above. I, Ioannes, wrote on their behalf, since they are illiterate. † ☧ Executed through me, Ioannes. [verso] † Agreement of Apollos son of Anoup and Herkot son of Apollos, chief guards, from the village of Pleein of the Oxyrhynchite nome. †