bgu.16.2576
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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 23298
Order for issue of seed-grain loan of wheat TM 23298Herakleopolites8 - 2 v.Chr. (?)
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Fragment of an order for the issue of seed grain as a loan for the sowing of a regnal year of Augustus, totalling 10 artabas of wheat for land farmed by the recipient. It comes from the Herakleopolite nome and dates to about 8-2 BC.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] measure (?), with […]o and […] son of Aspheus (?) co-authorizing, and
[…] son of Aspheus and
[…] of those from
[…] the loans of the
[for the] […] [year of Caesar's sowing] for the (land) which he farms
[…] total: 10 artabas of wheat
[and receive from him] […]
[…]
Seed-grain loans were advanced by the state granaries to cultivators for sowing; the reference to the year of Caesar (Augustus) is restored.
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.