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Order to issue a seed loan of barley-wheat for the allotments of epigonoi TM 3242Ghoran (Arsinoites)14. Dez. 251 v.Chr.

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A double document in which Diogenes instructs Thrasymedes to issue a loan of 110 artabas of barley-wheat to Leptines son of Iason for working the neglected allotments of the 25-aroura epigonoi, to be repaid from the next harvest with the rents in year 36. It was written at Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome in December 251 BC.

In English machine translation

[inner text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Leptines son of Iason, for the abandoned (?) kleroi of the twenty-five-aroura epigonoi, a loan for cultivation work of 110 artabas of barley-wheat. Farewell. Year 35, Phaophi 21. [outer text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Leptines son of Iason, for the abandoned (?) kleroi of the twenty-five-aroura epigonoi, a loan for cultivation work, which he will repay from the new crop together with the rents in year 36, of barley-wheat 110 artabas. Farewell. Year 35, Phaophi 21. [verso] To Leptines. To Thrasymedes. Barley-wheat 110 artabas.

The kleroi are military allotments; 'ekleleimmenoi' likely means plots left uncultivated or abandoned by their holders. Epigonoi were descendants of Greek settlers, here holders of 25-aroura plots; barley-wheat (krithopyros) is a mixed grain crop.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Le même au même. Prêt à des épigones clérouques). 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 · 14. Dez. 251 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

[r,int] Διογένης Θρασυμήδει χαίρειν. σύνταξον μετρῆσαι Λεπτίνηι Ἰάσονος εἰς τοὺς ἐγλελειμμένους κλήρους τῶν εἰκοσιπενταρούρων ἐπιγόνων δάνειον εἰς κάτεργον κριθοπυροῦ ἀρτάβας ρι. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους λε, Φαῶφι κα. [r,ext] Διογένης Θρασυμήδει χαίρειν. σύνταξον μετρῆσαι Λεπτίνηι Ἰάσονος ε…