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Order to issue seed wheat and cultivation advance for assigned land TM 3251Ghoran (Arsinoites)251 - 250 v.Chr.

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Official letter from Diogenes to Thrasymedes passing on an instruction from Aristandros, prompted by a memorandum from Lysis: once land has been assigned to Lysis, he is to receive seed and cultivation advances, and Thrasymedes is to have the seed wheat measured out. It comes from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum), 251-250 BC.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] Diogenes to Thrasymedes, greeting. Lysis having given Aristandros the memorandum written below, Aristandros wrote that, once the land had been shown to him, the seed and the cultivation costs should be paid out to him together. Give orders, therefore, to measure out to him seed for the […] […] [Fragment B] Lysis having given Aristandros the memorandum written below, Aristandros wrote that, once the land had been shown to him, the seed and the cultivation costs should be paid out to him together. Give orders, therefore, to measure out to him seed for the […] artabas of wheat […] […]

The two fragments preserve two copies of the same text. 'Katergon' is the advance paid for 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. Assignation de terre et prêt). 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 · 251 - 250 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

[FrA] Διογένης Θρασυμήδει χαίρειν. δόντος Λύσιδος Ἀριστάνδρωι τὸ ὑπογεγραμμένον ὑπόμνημα, ἔγραψεν Ἀρίστανδρος παραδείξαντα αὐτῶι τὴν γῆν συγχρηματίσαι τὸ σπέρμα καὶ τὸ κάτεργον· σύνταξον οὖν μετρῆσαι αὐτῶι σπέρμα εἰς τὸ […]… [… ? lines lost …] [FrB] δόντος Λύσιδος Ἀριστάνδρωι τὸ …