Petition of public farmers and landholders of Karanis concerning flooding TM 9736Karanis (Arsinoites)

Fragmentary opening of a petition from the public farmers and landholders of the village of Karanis to Hierax also called Nemesion, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. It seems to concern flooding of land and a breach, possibly of a dyke, but most of the text is lost.

In English machine translation

The word limnasmos refers to the flooding or standing water on fields. The verb read as 'to be broken through' may refer to a breached dyke, but the context is lost.

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