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Request to the strategos about obstruction of public seed supply at sowing time TM 23386Herakleopolites

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A petition-like official letter from Athenodoros, agent of Asklepiades son of Dionysios, to a strategos in the Herakleopolite nome. He complains that sowing time is passing while someone connected with Athenion, an imperial slave or estate, obstructs the supply of public seed, and asks that orders be sent so that dues are collected and receipts issued; a list of seed quantities by toparchy follows.

In English machine translation

To […], strategos and in charge of the revenues, from Athenodoros, agent (phrontistes) of Asklepiades son of Dionysios. Since the time of sowing is running past, and the estate(?) […] of Athenion, slave(?) of Caesar, is obstructing the supply of the [public] seed, if it seems good, let instructions be sent […] the matters now pressing to those in […] so that they may receive the due public dues from the farmers, and from the heads of the […] the due receipts, so that nothing be diverted to […]. And let it be according to the customary […]: […], Peri Polin: 1,050 artabas of wheat, 100 artabas of barley, 230 artabas of olyra; […] of the Middle (toparchy): 50 artabas of wheat, 56 artabas of barley; of Ptolemaios, Pera; […]nios, Agema: 50 artabas of wheat; of Herakleios, Peri Techtho; […] 675 artabas of olyra, 105 artabas of vegetable seed; of Apollonios, Peri Bousirin; […] Peri Tilothin: 400 artabas of wheat, 500 artabas of barley, 400 artabas of olyra; of Sarapion, […], 20 artabas of vegetable seed, barley 200, olyra 15; so that the total is [… artabas of wheat] […]575, barley 856, olyra 1,[…]5, vegetable seed 255. 221

Olyra is a type of emmer wheat; 'lachanon' here means vegetable seed (probably oil-plant seed). The broken word before Athenion's name (oikei[…]) may refer to his household or estate, and the reading of the final figure 221 is unexplained.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Herakleopolites

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