One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 38837

Fragments concerning new plantings and land plots TM 38837unbekanntVII

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Fragments of a 7th-century AD document, apparently a petition or report concerning newly planted vines or trees, mentioning a document submitted to an official and listing plots of land, one in the desert of Phakos and one named after Charinos.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] […] the young plantings which he planted, which he planted, according to (?) […] the reading (?) submitted to you. But I, instead of the […] [Fragment ?] plot of the desert of Phakos (?) […] plot of Charinos […] […] planted the […]

The Greek of the first line is garbled, with repeated words; the term neophytia refers to newly planted land, typically young vines or trees. The place-name Phakos is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · VII

[FrA] […]σίως τὰς ἐφυτευσε τὰ ἐφυτευσε τὰ νεοφυτία πρὸς ἂν […] ἐπιδοθεῖσάν σοι ἀνάγνωσιν. ἐγὼ δὲ ἀντὶ τῶν … [Fr??] τόπος ἑρήμου Φακῶτος … τόπος Χαρίνου … […]…ανασθηνη φυτευσε τὴν συμπλη…[…]