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An order from Herakleitos, toparch and official in charge of seed distribution, instructing Dioskourides and his partners to pay out 10 artabas of wheat as a seed loan to the farmer Machatas son of Limnaios for 20 arouras near Toou. It concerns the sowing of year 23 of Augustus (8-7 BC) in the Herakleopolite nome.
A kleros was an allotment of land originally granted to a settler; the phrasing about the Theodorides allotment being 'mortgaged' to Epiphanios is uncertain. The 'Caesar' of the regnal year is Augustus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Seed Grain). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἡράκλιτοςτοπάρχης καὶ κατασπορεὺς Διοσκουρίδηι καὶ τοῖς μετόχοις χαίρειν μετρήσατε εἰς σπέρματα δάνεια τοῦ εἰς τὸ κγ ἔτος Καίσαρος σπόρου εἰς τὰς σεσημασμένας ὑπὸ τοῦ κωμογραμματέως τῆς κώμης Μαχάτᾳ Λιμναίου εἰς ἃς γεωργεῖ περὶ Τοοὺ ἐκ τοῦ Πτολεμαίου κλήρου Ἱερονίνων ἀρούρας ϛ κα…
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