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Draft of an official letter to Petearpsenesis forwarding a report from the village scribe of Psyai about works needed to irrigate certain land, and urging that the matter be dealt with quickly. It comes from the Arsinoite nome and is dated year 25, Tybi.
The scribe replaced 'potismos' (artificial watering) with 'broche' (flooding/inundation of the land), and struck out other words, showing this is a draft. The regnal year's reign is not stated in the text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Entwurf eines Behördenschreibens, Bewässerung betreffend). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Πετεαρψενήσει τῆς γεγραμμένης ἡμῖν ἐπιστολῆς παρὰ […] τοῦ ἐν Ψύαι κωμογραμματέως περὶ ὧν προφέρεται δεῖν ἀχθῆναι ἔργων πρὸς τὸν βροχὴν τῆς διασαφουμένης γῆς […]. ἐπεὶ οὖν ὀξείας ἀντιλήψεως δεῖται τὰ κατὰ τὸν ποτισμόν, ἐὰν φαίνηται, διαληφθήτω ὡς ἐν τάχει ε…[…]…φ… ἔτουςκε Τῦβι…
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