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Order to supply seed wheat for land near Psobthis TM 17572Oxyrhynchos11. Nov. 99

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An official order, from Oxyrhynchos and dated 11 November AD 99, to issue 6 artabas of clean new wheat as seed for 6 arouras near Psobthis, registered in the name of Ptolemaios son of Alexandros. The sowing was to be supervised by the seed-inspectors and the village scribe, and a duplicate written receipt was to be obtained, one copy returned to the issuer.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] [in] the name of Ptolemaios also called Pa[...], son of Alexandros, in the area of the same Psobthis, from the (holding) of Philonikos [...] and other kinds, for 6 arouras, of new, clean, unadulterated wheat, free of barley, sieved, measured by the prescribed public measure, 6 artabas, which he will also deposit in the ground soundly and faithfully, embezzling nothing, with the seed-inspectors and the village scribe and the others appointed over the sowing attending the depositing; from whom also receive the appropriate written declaration in duplicate, of which you will return one copy to me. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, month of Neos Sebastos 14.

The beginning, including the addressees and issuing official, is lost. Neos Sebastos is an honorific month name corresponding to Hathyr.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to Supply 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.57.3907

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Nov. 99 · Oxyrhynchos

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