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Fragmentary application by cultivators of imperial estate land asking for a loan of seed grain for about 6 3/8 arouras of inundated land, to be issued through the sitologoi Syrion and associates. They promise to sow it properly and repay from the new harvest with the rents, swearing by the emperor Domitian.
Ousiac land was imperial estate land administered by the state. The repeated '6 1/4 1/8' is the area in arouras (6 3/8).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Richiesta di prestito di sementi). 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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