An order to release seed wheat (3 1/2 artabas, at 1 artaba per aroura) from public stores to farmers for sowing 3 1/2 arouras, including land registered in the name of Thatres son of Diogenes, with repayment from the new harvest. Written at Oxyrhynchus on 14 November AD 99.
In English machine translation
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[…] in the name of Thatres son of Diogenes, his mother being Tanechotis, from the [Tarou]thinos and Parmenion (holding?), 1 aroura, so that the total is 3 1/2 arouras, being sown in the present 3rd year with wheat, using as seed 1 artaba of wheat per aroura,
the total of 3 1/2 artabas of wheat, clean, unadulterated, without barley, sieved, by the public measure, which they will also deposit in the land, under supervision of the usual officials, nothing being deducted for debt or anything else, and from the new crop they will repay the same amount together with the public dues on the land; from them you are also to receive the proper receipt in duplicate, of which you will give the other copy back to me.
Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, month of Neos Sebastos 17.
The beginning, with the issuing official and addressees (probably granary officials), is lost. Neos Sebastos is an honorific name for the month 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.