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sb.20.14624 = HGV SB 20 14624 = Trismegistos 5710 = michigan.apis.1784 = sb.5.8243



DDbDP transcription: sb.20.14624 [xml]

258-256 BC Philadelphia
[Reprinted from: sb.5.8243] SB 5,8243

[Ἀπολλων]ί̣ω̣ι διοικη̣τ̣ῆι χαίρ[ε]ι̣ν Καλλιγένη̣[ς.]
[δύναται] ἡ νῆσος περιχωσθῆναι μετὰ τὸν θε[ρισμὸν]
[ἐν ἡμέρ]α̣ις ξ, ἐὰν δοθῆι σῖτος παλαιὸς ταλ(άντων) ι̣ τ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ κ]ατὰ νομαρχίαν σώμασιν (μυριὰς) α Ε ἑκά[στωι ἀνὰ (?)]
5[δραχμῶ]ν τεσσάρων καὶ σκαφεῖα Ε καὶ λιθ[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[ὥστʼ εἷνα]ι τὸ λοι̣πὸν τοῦ ἐσομένου ἀναλώματ̣[ος ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[εἰς τὸ περ]ίχωμ̣α τά(λαντα) ϛ. ἀπὸ δὲ τούτων ἕως κα[ταβάσεως (?)]
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]μευσιν καταλαβόντες τὰς ἐγβολ[ὰς τὰς ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[εἰς τὸν ποτα]μὸμ(*) φερούσας καὶ τὰς ἀφ[έσ]εις ε̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
10[- ca.11 -]  ̣ινας γενέσθαι παρέξομεν τ[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[- ca.11 -]ν ἤδη πλήρη διὰ παντὸς ὥσ[τε ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[- ca.11 - ἕ]ω̣ς οὗ ἂν χρείαν ἔχηις ταξ[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
\γῆς/
[- ca.12 -]  ̣  ̣ εἰς τὰ λοιπὰ ἔτη τὴμ  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
15εὐτύχει
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APIS Translation (English)

To Apollonios the dioiketes, Kalligenesgreeting. [- - -] ;The island [can] be embanked after the harvest [- - -] in 60 days, if old wheat is given for 10 talents [- - -] to the workmen, [divided] according to nomarchy [and numbering] 15,000, at 4 drachmai each, and 5,000 mattocks and . . . stone-[. . .], so that(?) the rest of the expense to be made for the embankment will be 6 talents. From then(?) until the retreat [of the Nile(?) - - - occupying the outlets leading to the river and the sluices [- - -] we will provide the [- - -] being full already all the time so that [- - -] as long as you need [- - -] for the remaining years [- - -]. Farewell.