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Order to issue a seed-grain loan to the cultivator Demetrios TM 3248Ghoran (Arsinoites)15. Febr. 250 v.Chr.

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An order from Diogenes to Thrasymedes to issue Demetrios, a cultivator near Psenaryo, a loan of 40 artabas of barley-wheat (or old barley) for farm work, repayable from the next harvest together with his rents. It was written in the Arsinoite nome in 250 BC, in year 35 of Ptolemy II.

In English machine translation

[recto, inner text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Demetrios, for the land he farms near Psenaryo, a loan for cultivation work, which he will repay from the new crop together with the rents in year 36: 40 artabas of barley-wheat. Farewell. Year 35, Choiak 24. [recto, outer text] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greetings. Give orders to measure out to Demetrios, for the land he farms near Psenaryo, a loan for cultivation work, which he will repay from the new crop together with the rents in year 36: 40 artabas of barley-wheat or old barley. Farewell. Year 35, Choiak 24. [verso] Of Demetrios. To Thrasymedes.

The text is written twice, an inner and an outer copy; only the outer copy adds the option of old barley. Barley-wheat (krithopyros) is a mixed grain 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 · 15. Febr. 250 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

[r,int] Διογένης Θρασυμήδει χαίρειν· σύνταξον μετρῆσαι Δημητρίωι εἰς ἣν γεωργεῖ περὶ Ψεναρύω δάνειον εἰς κάτεργον ὃ ἀποδώσει ἐκ νέων ἅμα τοῖς ἐκφορίοις ἐν τῶι λϛ ἔτει κριθοπυροῦ ἀρτάβας μ. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους λε, Χοίαχ κδ. [r,ext] Διογένης Θρασυμήδει χαίρειν· σύνταξον μετρῆσαι Δημητρίω…