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Taseus and other priests of Heliopolis and Aphroditopolis acknowledge the receipt of linen for the burial of a Mnevis bull from Maron, a priest of the temple at Tebtunis
Translation: Taseus, chief prophetes of the lords Imperatores Augusti, overseer of the temples at Heliopolis and Aphroditopolis, and however he is styled, through Horos son of Areis, priest and deputy stolistes, and Nabonychos son of Iphynes, priest and second stolistes, and Petosarapis son of Petosarapis, ex-lesones, and Petoso…onis also called Serenus, son of Menthotes, and the rest of the priests of Helios and Mnevis, the eternal most great gods, and of other temples, to Maron son of Pakebkis also called Zosimos, priest of the famous temple of the gods of the village of Tebtunis in the division of Polemon in the Arsinoite nome, greeting. You have delivered and given to us, with the concurrence of Dioskoros son of Apollonios, ex-gymnasiarch and ex-strategos of our nome, and N.N., ex-exegetes, and N.N. (for the burial) of Mnevis son of Osortha … 2[0?] cubits of fine linen. The 19th year of Imperatores Caesares Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Publius Septimius Geta Britannici Maximi Pii Augusti. (Then follow three demotic lines.)

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