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Report concerning farmers of the former Senecan estate TM 28306ArsinoitesII

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Fragment of an official report or petition from the Arsinoite nome, addressed to a strategos, involving a village scribe and submitted by Petheus and Apollonios, farmers of public and estate land formerly belonging to the estate of Seneca. It mentions those cultivating the land and a letter sent to the strategos of a division of the nome.

In English machine translation

[…] […]kratês, strategos […] […] of […], village scribe […] […] traces […] […]kratês, strategos […] […] from Petheus and Apollonios […] […] public and estate farmers […] […] formerly of the Senecan estate […] […] and those farming […] […] the letter to the [strategos] of the [division] […] […] […]

The 'Senecan estate' (ousia) was land once owned by the philosopher Seneca and later confiscated to imperial administration; 'estate farmers' (ousiakoi georgoi) worked such former private estates.

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

p.aberd.152

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

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