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Order from the dux Atias assigning land to be sown at Leukogion TM 9885Herakleopolites oder Arsinoites4. Okt. 698

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An official order issued in the name of the dux Flavius Atias to a priest of the village of Isiou, acting for the village of Leukogion, assigning land that must be sown for the harvest of the 13th indiction. The assignment is a single aroura of a holding east of Phaeim, dated Phaophi 7 of the 12th indiction (4 October 698).

In English machine translation

† With God. Flavius Atias, most glorious [dux, through […] to you,] […]ol, priest, from the village of Isiou, on behalf of the village of Leukogion: the following are the plots of land which must be sown by you for the crops of the 13th indiction: holding on the east of Phaeim, 1 aroura. Month of Phaophi 7, indiction 12. Total 1 aroura.

This is one of the early Arab-period sowing orders, in which the governor's office allotted land a village was required to cultivate. The addressee's name and the intermediary are lost at the start.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anweisung). 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 · 4. Okt. 698 · Herakleopolites oder Arsinoites

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