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Order to issue a seed-and-working loan of wheat to the farmer Sokmenis TM 3246Ghoran (Arsinoites)17. Febr. 250 v.Chr.

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An order from Diogenes to his subordinate Thrasymedes to issue a loan of 120 artabas of old unsifted wheat to the farmer Sokmenis son of Kollouthos for cultivation expenses, to be repaid from the next harvest with the rents in year 36. It was written in the Arsinoite nome (Ghoran) in 250 BC and was passed on to Orthagoras on Tybi 2.

In English machine translation

[recto, inner text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Sokmenis son of Kollouthos, for the land he farms in the area of Dikaios's holdings (?), as a loan for working expenses, 120 artabas of old unsifted wheat. Farewell. Year 35, Choiak 26. [recto, outer text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Sokmenis son of Kollouthos, for the land he farms in the area of Dikaios's holdings (?), as a loan for working expenses, which he will repay from the new crop together with the rents in year 36, of old unsifted wheat 120 artabas. Farewell. Year 35, Choiak 26. Tybi 2, to Orthagoras. [verso] Of Sokmenis. Old wheat, 120 artabas. To Thrasymedes.

The text is written twice, as an inner and an outer copy, a format used for documents that needed safeguarding. 'Katergon' denotes a loan for the costs of working the land, with no exact English equivalent.

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 cultivateur). 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 · 17. Febr. 250 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

[r,int] Διογένης Θρασυμήδει χαίρειν. σύνταξον μετρῆσαι Σοκμήνει Κολλούθου εἰς ἣν γεωργεῖ περὶ τῶν Δικαίου δάνειον εἰς κάτεργον πυροῦ παλαιοῦ ἀκοσκινεύτου ἀρτάβας ρκ. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους λε, Χοίαχ κϛ [r,ext] Διογένης Θρασυμήδει χαίρειν· σύνταξον μετρῆσαι Σοκμήνει Κολλούθου εἰς ἣν γεωργε…