Register of unusable land [3rd cent. B.C.] 299 BCE – 200 BCE
Description
Register of unusable land from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name: Fayyum), Egypt, written on papyrus. Included is land that cannot be used for the cultivation of wheat, vines or garden crops. Arranged by village including Kerkesouchon, Psenaryo, Tanchoireos, Ptolemaidos Hormou and Hauereos (modern name: Hawara). The types of unusable land specified include: canals, dikes a road, rock, hills, dry land, land under water, salted land, deserted bean field, ditches, water conduits, places where bushes have taken over, tile factories, highland not reached by inundation, sand, and dry land. Verso has an account of wheat in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 100 V)
The same text in other collections
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TM 44543.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Account of wheat [3rd cent. B.C.] APIS-papyrus 299 BCE – 200 BCE
- p.bagnall.9 DDbDP-text text299 BCE – 200 BCE
- A Ptolemaic Register of Unused Land in the Arsinoite Nome HGV-meta Arsinoitesfrühes II v.Chr.
Cross-references (4)
- TM-Text 44543 primary
- APIS-Text duke.apis.32054100 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.bagnall;;9 tier-1
- HGV-Text 44543 tier-1
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