ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τῶν [κ]υ̣ρ[ίων ἡμῶν] Σεουήρου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Μ̣α̣ξ̣ι̣[μίνου] ἐπιφανεστάτου Κα[ίσαρος.] Αὐρηλίῳ Διοσκόρῳ τ[ῷ κα]ὶ̣ [Ἑλλαδίῳ γυ(μνασιαρχ- )-] βουλ(ευτῇ) ἐνάρχου (*) πρυτάνει τῆς λαμ(πρᾶς) καὶ λαμ(προτάτης) Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως Αὐρήλιος Θιμόθεος (*) Σαραπιάδου{ς} ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ἐπειδὴ οὐ δεόντος (*) [μ]ε̣τ̣ῆ̣λ̣θ̣άν̣ με οἱ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ὀνομάγγωναις (*) ὡς περὶ συστάσεως ὄνων δύο ἀποστελλομένων πρὸς τὸν διασημότατον μάγιστρον τῆς πριουάτη[ς] ὡς δ̣ῆ̣θεν μετ̣ε̣ρχο- μ̣μενος μαι (*) τὴν αὐτην (*) τέχνην, κατὰ ταῦτα ὁμολογῶ ὀμνὺς τὴν τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Αὐτο̣κρατόρ̣ων Μαξιμιανοῦ καὶ Σεουήρου Σεβαστῶν καὶ Μαξιμίνου καὶ Κωνσταντίνου τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων τύχην τὴν αὐτῶν τέχνην μητεπόπουτε (*) πεποιηκέναι μη- δὲ ποιεῖν, εἰ δὲ ὕστερον καταλημπίην (*) ἔνοχος ἔσομαι̣ τῷ (*) θείῳ ὅρκῳ καὶ τῷ περὶ τούτου κινδύνῳ. ἔτους ιε γ α τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Μαξιμιανοῦ καὶ Σεουήρου Σεβαστῶν καὶ Μαξιμίνου καὶ Κωνσταντίνου τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων. (hand 2?) Παχὼν ιδ.
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"In the time of our lords, Severus the Augustus and Maximinus the most illustrious Caesar. Aurelius Dioscorus, the gymnasiarch, the councilor of the illustrious city of Oxyrhynchus, Aurelius Timotheus, from the same city. Since it was not proper for me to be called by the names of the same city, as concerning the establishment of two donkeys being sent to the most distinguished master of the priuate, as if I were supposedly engaged in the same craft, according to these things I confess and swear by the oaths of our lords, the emperors, Maximian and Severus the Augusti, and Maximinus and Constantine, the most illustrious Caesars, that I have neither made nor will make their craft, and if later I should be found guilty, I will be liable to the divine oath and the danger concerning this matter. In the year 15 of our lords, Maximian and Severus the Augusti, and Maximinus and Constantine, the most illustrious Caesars."