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(Translation: from P.Oxy. 7) The 13th year of the reign of our most godly and pious sovereign and greatest benefactor Flavius Justinus, eternal Augustus and Imperator, the 11th year after the second consulship of his serenity, and the 3rd year of Flavius Tiberius also called Novus Constantinus, our most fortunate Caesar, Pachon 15, 11th indiction. To Flavius Phib, the most esteemed assistant in the praefect’s office in the province of Arcadia, son of of illustrious memory, from the new city of Justinus, Aurelius John, millstone-maker, son of Anoup and Kuranan, an inhabitant of the said city, greeting. I acknowledge that 1 have received from your magnificence as aloan for my pressing needs one-third of a gold solidus on the private standard of current coin, total 1/3 gold solidus, private standard, and this I agree to produce to you whenever you choose, together with the extra payment, without delay. This deed, of which one copy has been made, is valid, and in answer to the question I have given my consent. (Signature of John written for him by Serenus, the scribe who penned the contract, signature of Serenus, and title on the back.)