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An order from Demetrios, toparch and overseer of sowing, to Dioskourides and his associates (granary officials) to measure out wheat as a seed loan to a farmer from Peenamoi for the sowing of Year 28 of Augustus, countersigned by the royal scribe. It comes from the Herakleopolite nome and dates to 3-2 BC.
Year 28 of Caesar is Augustus' 28th regnal year (3/2 BC). The farmer's land is listed by former holders (Apollonios, Kastor), totalling 16 arouras.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Orders 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.
Δημήτριος τοπάρχης καὶ κατασπορεὺς Διοσκουρίδῃ καὶ τοῖς μετόχοις χαίρειν. μετρήσατε συνεπιστέλλοντος τοῦ βασιλικοῦ γραμματέως Ἀδρ[…] … Ἄπιος τῶν ἀπὸ Πεεναμοι εἰς σπέρματα δάνεια τοῦ εἰς τὸ κη ἔτος Καίσαρος σπόρου[…] … κωμογραμματεως γεωργεῖ ιβ[…]…[…] […]ησφυ ἐκ τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου β ……
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