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Application for seed loans by farmers of Sinkepha TM 17571OxyrhynchosEnde 229

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An application by four farmers from the village of Sinkepha to the village scribe of Chysis and other villages of the Upper toparchy, asking for seed loans of wheat from the previous year's harvest to sow royal land they farm. It lists the plots, their former holders, areas and the rates of wheat and money due. It was written at the end of AD 229 in the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

To the village scribe of Chysis and other villages of the Upper toparchy, from the Aurelii Julius son of Ammonios, his mother being Sar[…], and Akairaios son of Papontos, his mother being Dionysia, and Kopreus son of Saras, his mother being Tauris, and Papontos son of Cornelius, his mother being Sapsis, all from the village of Sinkepha. We request that there be dispatched as seed loans, from the wheat of the produce of the past 8th year, for the sowing of the present 9th year, for the royal land which we farm around the same village, previously assigned to Marcus Lollius Leonides and Athenodoros son of Athenodoros, cultivators, formerly of Herakleides son of Ptolemaios, former agoranomos and former gymnasiarch, and of A[…]naria also called Aristandra: from the holding of Dositheos, to Dion son of Agathinos, at the rate of 2 1/8 1/16 artabas of wheat and 5 drachmas 2 obols 3 chalkoi, from 26 1/2 1/8 arouras, three quarters, 19 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/32 arouras; and from the holding of Kelsos, at the rate of 3 1/32 artabas of wheat, 3 1/2 arouras, and from 9 2/3 arouras, three quarters, 7 1/4 1/16 arouras; and from the holding of Asklepiades, formerly of the same Dion son of Agathinos, at the rate of 2 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/128 artabas of wheat and 5 drachmas 5 obols 3 chalkoi, 19 1/2 1/4 arouras; and from the royal land formerly of […], at the rate of 5 1/2 artabas of wheat, from 12 1/2 1/4 1/32 1/64 arouras, three quarters, 9 1/2 1/8 1/64 arouras; and from the holding of Aristonikos, to Papontos son of Ariston, son of A[…], at the rate of 3 1/4 1/32 1/64 artabas of wheat and 6 drachmas, from 7 1/2 arouras, three quarters, 5 1/2 1/8 arouras; and from the holding of […]eus […] 1/2 of the […] […]

The fractional figures are given as the papyrus writes them (sums of unit fractions); some passages, such as the abbreviation read as 'royal land formerly of', are uncertain. Royal land (basilike ge) was state-owned land leased to cultivators, who could request seed from state granaries.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Seed - Corn). 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.57.3906

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende 229 · Oxyrhynchos

κωμογραμματεῖ Χύσεως καὶ ἄλλων κωμῶν τῆς Ἄνω τοπαρχίας παρὰ Αὐρηλίων Ἰουλίου Ἀμμωνίου μητρὸς Σαρ…[…]…ος καὶ Ἀκαιραίου Παποντῶτος μητρὸς Διονυσίας καὶ Κοπρέως Σαρᾶτος μητρὸς Ταύριος καὶ Παποντῶτος Κορνηλίου μητρὸς Σάψιος πάντων ἀπὸ κώμης Σιγκέφα. αἰτούμεθα ἐπισταλῆναι εἰς σπέρματα…