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Order to issue a loan of barley to settlers for cultivating autumn sesame TM 3243Ghoran (Arsinoites)29. Dez. 251 v.Chr.

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An order from Diogenes to Thrasymedes to issue a seed-grain loan of 50 artabas of old barley or barley-wheat to Menes, a 25-aroura settler, and 10 artabas to Bromenos, for cultivating and harvesting autumn sesame, repayable from the new crop in year 36. Written in December 251 BC at Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[inner text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Menes, holder of 25 arouras, epigonos, a loan for the working and harvesting of autumn sesame, which he will repay from the new crop together with the rents in year 36, 50 artabas of old barley or barley-wheat, and to Bromenos likewise 10 artabas. Farewell. Year 35, Hathyr 6. [outer text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Menes, holder of 25 arouras, epigonos, a loan for the working and harvesting of autumn sesame, which he will repay from the new crop together with the rents in year 36, 50 artabas of old barley or barley-wheat, and to Bromenos likewise 10 artabas. [Farewell. Year 35, Hathyr 6.] [verso] Of Menes, for working. To Thrasymedes

The text is written twice, an inner and an outer copy. An epigonos was a descendant of a military settler, here a cleruch holding 25 arouras.

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 un épigone clérouque). 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 · 29. Dez. 251 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

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