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Petition to the strategos Aurelius Didymos concerning sown land and wheat TM 19959unbekannt26. Mai - 24. Juni 225

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Fragmentary petition addressed to Aurelius Didymos, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, from Aurelius Lucretius, apparently concerning land, sowing and wheat in artabas involving a landowner of a village. It is dated in the 4th year of Severus Alexander, month Pauni (AD 225).

In English machine translation

To Aurelius Didymos, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Aurelius Lucretius […] […]enios, landowner […] […] of the aforementioned village […] […] for […] equal (?) […] […] of grain […] to […] […] […] royal (?) […] […] […] himself […] […] concerning which arouras the […] brought in, artabas of wheat […] with regard to which […] […] which they sowed […] by the care of […] and until the […] the petitions […] […] […] according to […] that you send up […] […] through […] Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix Augustus, Pauni […]

Most lines preserve only their beginnings, so the exact grievance cannot be reconstructed; the request that the official 'send up' the matter suggests referral to a higher authority.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Mai - 24. Juni 225

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