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Order from Panakestor to issue barley loans and wheat seed to cultivators TM 1516unbekannt19. Nov. 257 v.Chr.

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An order from Panakestor, manager of an estate, to the granary officials Kleitarchos and Andron to issue barley loans for cultivation costs and wheat seed to four cultivators. The text is written twice and dated Year 29, Thoth 25 (19 November 257 BC).

In English machine translation

[recto] Panakestor to Kleitarchos and Andron, greetings. Measure out to Nikeratos son of Protarchos as a loan for the cultivation expenses for the land which he holds 20 artabas of barley, and to Keleesis son of Horos, Persian, as a loan 10 artabas of barley and as seed 2 artabas of wheat, and to Patis son of Pais as a loan for the cultivation expenses 15 artabas of barley and as seed 3 artabas of wheat, and to Nikomachos son of Balakros, Macedonian, as seed 3 artabas of wheat. Year 29, Thoth 25. Panakestor to Kleitarchos and Andron, greetings. Measure out to Nikeratos son of Protarchos as a loan for the cultivation expenses 20 artabas of barley, and to Keleesis son of Horos, Persian, as a loan 10 artabas of barley and as seed 2 artabas of wheat, and to Patis son of Pais as a loan for the cultivation expenses 15 artabas of barley and as seed 3 artabas of wheat, and to Nikomachos son of Balakros, Macedonian, as seed 3 artabas of wheat. Farewell. Year 29, Thoth 25. Measure out through Diodoros. [verso] 3 (?). To Kleitarchos and Andron. 25. Grain matters.

The term katergon refers to working or cultivation expenses advanced to farmers. Panakestor managed Apollonios' estate at Philadelphia before Zenon, so the document belongs to the Zenon archive.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 19. Nov. 257 v.Chr.

[r] Πανακέστωρ Κλειτάρχωι Ἄνδρωνι χαίρειν μετρήσατε Νικηράτωι Πρωτάρχου δάνειον εἰς τὸ κάτεργον εἰς τὴν γῆν ἣν ἔχει κριθῶν ἀρτάβας κ, καὶ Κελεήσει Ὥρου Πέρσηι δάνειον κριθῶν ἀρτάβας ι καὶ σπέρμα πυρῶν ἀρτάβας β, καὶ Πάτιτι Πάιτος δάνειον εἰς τὸ κάτεργον κριθῶν ἀρτάβας ιε καὶ σπέρ…