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Order from Thrasymedes to Herakleitos to issue barley to 25-aroura cleruchs TM 3252Ghoran (Arsinoites)30. Okt. 251 v.Chr.

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An order from Thrasymedes to Herakleitos to measure out 372 artabas of barley, on the instruction of Aristandros, to soldier-settlers holding 25-aroura lots, as a loan to be repaid the following year. It is dated Year 35, Thoth 6 (30 October 251 BC) and comes from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto, inner text] Issue (?) […] Year 35, Thoth 6, to the twenty-five-arourai men, if they exist, which they will repay in year 36: 372 artabas of barley. [recto, outer text] Thrasymedes to Herakleitos, greetings. Measure out in accordance with the order from Aristandros […] [verso] 372 (artabas) of barley. To Herakleitos.

The text is written twice, an inner and an outer copy, as in a double document. The 'twenty-five-arourai men' were military settlers (cleruchs) holding allotments of 25 arourai.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Thrasymèdès à Hèracleitos). 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 · 30. Okt. 251 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

[r,int] σύνταξον[…] ἔτους λε, Θῶυθ ϛ τοῖς εἰκοσιπενταρούροις ἐὰν ὑπάρχωσιν ὃ ἀποδώσουσιν ἐν τῶι λϛ ἔτει κριθῆς ἀρτάβας τοβ. [r,ext] Θρασυμήδης Ἡρακλείτωι χαίρειν. μέτρησον κατὰ τὸ παρὰ Ἀριστάνδρου πρόσταγμα[…]…ει και…ογ[…] [v] κριθῆς τοβ Ἡρακλείτωι.