Order of the strategos to issue seed wheat to four brothers at Talao TM 21213Oxyrhynchites5. Nov. 88

To the sitologoi of Talao […] Flavius Herakleides, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Ploutos and his associate sitologoi […], greetings. Measure out from the finest sample, with Gaius the royal scribe and […] also authorizing, from the produce of the past 7th year, for the sowing of the present 8th year of Domitian Caesar the lord, to Heraklejos, aged about 40, with a scar in the middle of the forehead, and to Demas, aged about 33, with a scar on the left foot, and to Thonis, aged about 25, with a scar on the right knee, and to Papontos, who is in poor health, through the aforementioned brothers, to the four, sons of Paesis son of Demas, their mother being Tsen[…]tis daughter of Papontos, from the village of Talao, whom you will also identify at your own risk, the amount they requested, for the land which Epimachos, topogrammateus of the lower toparchy of the eastern division, and Pekysis, komogrammateus of Talao, indicated that they cultivate around the same Talao […] […] [… lines lost …] […] […] of Potamon, 8 arouras […] […] and of Hippokrates, […] arouras, and from the […] of Apol[…] […] 8 arouras; total of royal land and other categories 25 1/4 arouras, 25 1/4 artabas of wheat, which they shall also deposit soundly in the ground, with the komogrammateus and the village tax collectors supervising the sowing, and they shall repay from the new crop together with the public dues on the land; from them also receive the appropriate written acknowledgement. Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, month of Neos Sebastos 9.