Letter from Panakestor ordering seed grain to be measured out to cultivators TM 110071Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

A letter from Panakestor, manager of the estate of Apollonios at Philadelphia in the Fayum, instructing Kleitarchos and Andron to measure out seed grain (wheat and barley) to several cultivators, including Kriton, Stotoetis, Pasis, Teuris and Sisyphos. Only the left part of the text survives.

In English machine translation

Panakestor is known from the Zenon archive as Zenon's predecessor as estate manager around 257-256 BC; no date survives in the text itself. Lines marked ⟨⟨ ⟩⟩ were added by the scribe between the lines.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Panakestor an Kleitarchos und Andron: Anweisung, Getreide an mehrere Personen auszumessen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.