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Application of Nebna villagers for release of floodwaters onto their fields TM 15929Nebna (Lykopolites)195 - 198

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Application by the farmers and others of the village of Nebna in the Lykopolite nome to the nome strategos, asking that, after the Nile flood receded, the waters held back be released onto their low-lying fields. They attach copies of earlier letters between strategoi on the same matter, from the reigns of Commodus and Septimius Severus, and the petitioners sign at the end.

In English machine translation

Sent (?). To […]des, strategos of the Lykopolite nome, […] from the […] and farmers of the village of Nebna […] […] when the most sacred Nile recedes, to let off the […] into our low-lying plains […] So, now that the Nile has receded, we ask […] to release the waters for us, as also to every […] We have appended the copy of the letters […] 'To Hermippos, strategos of the Lykopolite nome, […] I have sent, brother, to make the release […] onto the lands around Nebna. So that you may know this, dearest, […] and twentieth. I pray for your health. Year 2[…] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pius Armeniacus Medicus […]' Of another, likewise: 'Dioskoros, strategos of the Lykopolite nome, […] in response to what you wrote to me from a petition submitted […] that the waters be released to them from the embankment […] to the official appointed over the flooding of the area […] of the management of the waters. Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus, Thoth 26.' Year […] of Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus […] I, Pytheas son of Titianos, have submitted. Paadeleis […] son of Didymos, have submitted. I, Philantinous, Antinoite, have submitted. […] I, Didymos son of Apollonios, have submitted. Apollod[…]

The release (aphesis) refers to letting impounded floodwater through dykes onto fields after the inundation. The precedent letters cited date from Commodus' reign and from Year 4 of Septimius Severus (AD 195).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application from Lycopolite Villagers). 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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p.oxy.44.3167

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 195 - 198 · Nebna (Lykopolites)

ἐπεστάλη […]δηι στρατηγῶι Λυκοπολείτου […] […]χων καὶ γεωργῶν κώμης Νέβνα[…] […]ὁ ἱερώτατος Νεῖλος ἀποβῇ ἐπαφίεσθαι τ[…] …μου εἰς τὰ ὑποκαθήμενα πεδία ἡμῶν τ[…] τοῦ οὖν Νείλου ἀποβάντος ἀξιοῦμεν ἐπιστ[…] ἀπολῦσαι ἡμῖν τὰ ὕδατα ὡς καὶ παντὶ τῷ χρ…[…] ἐπιστολῶν τὸ ἀντίγραφον ὑπετάξ…