One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9673

Report of sowing-supervisors and dyke-overseers of the Argaitis canal to the strategos Hierax TM 9673Arsinoitesca. 206

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Two fragmentary copies or columns of a report addressed to Hierax, strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome, who was also deputizing for the Herakleides division. The senders are two sowing-supervisors and dyke-overseers of the Argaitis canal, also called Phiale; the body of the report is lost.

In English machine translation

[1] … … […] of Themistos and […] acting as deputy […] […] and […] of the sowing-supervisors […] […] […] […] [… ? lines lost …] [2] To Hierax, strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome, also acting as deputy for the strategia of the Herakleides division, from […]inos and Neilos, the 2 sowing-supervisors and dyke-overseers of the Argaitis canal, called Phiale, […] [… ? lines lost …]

Katasporeis supervised the sowing of land, and chomatepimeletai oversaw the upkeep of dykes; neither title has an exact English equivalent. Column 1 appears to have carried a similar address.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report from the Chomatepimeletae). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

bgu.13.2265

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 206 · Arsinoites

[1] … … […]ι Θεμίστ καὶ […]διαδεχομένῳ […]…λ […]…ου καί […] κατασπορέων […]…ησα[…]ι […]… η […]ασινι […]…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [2] Ἱέρακι στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδων διαδεχομένῳ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρά […]…ινου καὶ Νείλου τῶν …