Letter of Pais to Theomnestos ordering release of land or crop to Semtheus TM 112482Herakleopolites4. Jan. 212 v.Chr.

A short official letter in which Pais instructs Theomnestos to write to the guards so that they release to Semtheus son of Onnes some land or crop from an allotment near Peenamea, apparently sown with arakos (a vetch-like legume). It dates to year 10, Hathyr 24, which corresponds to 4 January 212 BC, in the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a kind of vetch or chickling) with no exact English equivalent. The verb of guarantee and several restorations, including the place name Peenamea, are uncertain.

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