Murecine Tablets (Tablets of the Sulpicii), wood/wax, between 20–60 CE
Pompeii, Italy
And Tiberius Claudius Nero being consuls
on the sixth of the Nones of July (2 July 37)
I the slave of Cypaerus wrote on orders (iussu) from Cypaerus my master
In his presence that I lent (locasse) to Hesychus the freedman (libertus)
of Tiberius Iulius Augustus to the Slave Evenus the silo
twelve among the mid-sized public silos called Bassiani of the
Puteolans, in which is stored
Alexandrian grain, which he received in deposit (pignori)
This day from C. Novius Eunus, in the same way
Also the space on the ground among these silos {silos} between the columns,
Where he has stored two hundred sacks of beans,
which he received on deposit (pignori)
from the same Eunus. Beginning on the Kalends of July (1 July 37)
in individual months for 1 individual sesterius. It was transacted at Puteoli.