Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 133

I 133) is the first in a series of Oxyrhynchus papyri (133–139) concerning the family affairs of Flavius Apion, his heirs, or his son.

We acknowledge that we have received from your honor on loan and have had measured out to us from the harvest of the present 14th indiction as seed for the crops of our lands in the approaching (D.V.)

We will pay back without fail to your honor the same amount of corn, new and sifted, according to the measure by which we received it, along with the tax payable by us in the month Payni of the current 227th=the 196th year and of the present 14th indiction, out of the new crops of the coming (D.V.)

[Second hand] The council of the chief men of the village of Takona in the Oxyrhynchite nome, through the names herein above written, (has given) to your honor this bond for two hundred artabae of uncleansed corn by measure, total 200 artab.

corn, which we will pay back at the date fixed; and we agree to all that is herein contained as it is above written, and in answer to the formal question have given our consent and discharge.