To Damarion, strategus of the Hermopolite nome, from Antonius Justinus, duplicarius, dispatched by Valerius Frontinus, praefect of the ala Heracliana stationed at Coptos. I have had measured to me by the elders of the village of Magdola Petechontos in the upper Koussite district for the past 25th year of Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord the proportion imposed upon them from the twenty thousand artabae of barley which his highness the praefect Longaeus Rufus ordered to be bought up from the produce of the twenty-third year for the requirements of the aforesaid ala, of barley, measured by the official standard at the appointed time for measuring ... . artabae in accordance with the division made by the officials of the nome; and I have issued four copies of this receipt. Date. Translation: P.Ryl. 2 85