bgu.16.2572
[… ? lines lost …] αμ…πρ[…]…[…] κε ἔτους Καίσαρος […] Ἄγημα κωμογραμματέως ἃς γεωργεῖ[…] ἐκ τοῦ Βοήθου β 𐅵 […] παῤ αὐτοῦ τὰς καθηκούσας χειρογραφίας μετρήσατε τὰς προκειμένας[…] […]οντα [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 23294
Order for the issue of seed grain TM 23294Herakleopolites6 - 5 v.Chr.
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Fragment of an order to issue seed grain, dated to year 25 of Augustus (6/5 BC) in the Herakleopolite nome. It mentions land farmed by someone connected with the village scribe, a plot of Boethos, and instructs the recipients to measure out the stated amounts after obtaining written undertakings.
In English machine translation
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Year 25 of Caesar […]
Agema (?)
of the village scribe, which he farms […]
from the land of Boethos 2 1/2 […]
from him [the appropriate written undertakings]
measure out the aforementioned […]
[…]
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The abbreviation read as Agema is uncertain. Seed-grain orders typically instructed granary officials to advance seed to cultivators against signed receipts.
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.