Declaration appointing a substitute to collect grain arrears from estate farmers TM 78603Oxyrhynchos28. Juni 196

To Lucretius Neilos, strategos, from Harpokration, son of Harpokration, by adoption son of Asklas, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, formerly secretary of the (estate) formerly of Julius Theon. By order of Aemilius Ammonianus, centurion, I declare that on account of the illness afflicting me and […] of the (amounts) ordered by him to be measured into the public granary as an advance on behalf of the farmers of the schedule of the 1st year and 2nd year of the same (estate) formerly of Julius Theon, I have appointed, in accordance with the decision of the same most excellent centurion, Harpokration son of Ophellion, his mother being Aristous, from the same city, who will travel to the Hermopolite nome with the grain schedule of the same 1st year and 2nd year which I am giving him, and will produce the farmers owing according to it, and will do everything. Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus, Epeiph 4. I, Harpokration, the aforementioned, have submitted (this). I, Harpokration son of Ophellion, consent.