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p.col.7.172 Karanis (Arsinoites)
Petition about Land via HGV-meta
Petition about land wrongly registered as arable at Karanis. Petition to the prefect from Aurelius Valerius of Karanis, complaining that the boundary-surveyor Palemon maliciously registered all 80 arouras he and his brothers held as sown land, though half was uncultivated and sand-covered, contrary to an earlier fair survey by the geometer Porphyrios. It goes on to mention land of his kinswoman Tapaeis, who had fled, before breaking off. machine translation
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- Petition about Land HGV-meta Karanis (Arsinoites)341
- Petition [ca 341-342 AD?] APIS-papyrus Karanis (Arsinoites)341 CE – 342 CE
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Transcription
[…]…διασημοτάτῳ ἡγεμόνι
[…]χαίρειν·
παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Οὐαλερίου αντιουρίου ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος
τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου νομοῦ. τελῶ ἐγὼ καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἐμοῦ
ὑπὲρ ἀρουρῶν ὀγδοήκοντα ἀφʼ ὧν σπείρεται τὸ ἥμισυ
μέρος, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ἥμισυ μέρος ἀγεώργητόν ἐστιν.
ἐπειδὴ[…] ἀναμετρουμένης τῆς γῆς ὁ ὁριοδείκτης τῶν
τόπων Παλήμων κατὰ ἐθελοκακίαν πάσας τὰς
ἀρούρας ὑπέβαλεν σπορίμας καὶ τέλεον ἃ μέτρια
…[…]…… ἐπεὶ οὖν καὶ ποτίστρα ἔστιν διʼ ἧς
καὶ ποτίζονται τὰ ἡμέτερα γῄδια, ὁ αὐτὸς ὁριοδείκτης
Παλήμων ὑπέβαλεν αὐτὰς ἐν τάξει σπορίμης
γῆς πάντων ποτιζόντων ἐξ αὐτῆς καὶ μηδὲ τῶν
…[…] σπαρέντων, παρακαλῶ τὴν σὴν λαμπρότητα
ἐπειδὴ καὶ Πορφυρίου τοῦ γεωμέτρου ἀναμετρήσαντος δίκαιον ἔπραξεν καὶ τὴν μὲν σπορίμην ὡς
σπορίμην ἐνήνεγκεν, τὴν δὲ χέρσον ἁμμόχωστον
ὡς χέρσον ἤνεγκεν, ὁ δὲ Παλήμων ὁ ὁριοδείκτης
ὑπέβαλεν τὰς πάσας ἀρούρας σπορίμας
καὶ ἐπειδὴ Ταπάεις Ἑρᾶ συνγενική μου τῇ διαφυγῇ ἐχρήσατο
κεκτημένη ἀρούρας εἴκοσι τρεῖς ἃς καλλίστας οὔσας εἰς αὐτὴν ἀνέπεμψαν ἐχουσαν υ[…]δες δύο …[…]…σια……
εις […]… ὅπως εἴ σοι δόξειεν κελεῦσαι ἀνα………
[…]ὁριοδείκτου ἐκείνου……[…]…[…]
[…]…τα……[…]…[…]Translations (1)
[To …] most perfect prefect (?), […] greetings.
From Aurelius Valerius […]antiourios (?), from the village of Karanis of the Arsinoite nome. I and my brothers pay taxes for 80 arouras, of which half is sown, while the remaining half is uncultivated. Since, when the land was being remeasured, the boundary-surveyor of the district, Palemon, out of malice registered all the arouras as sown, and moreover those that were moderate […] Since there is also a watering channel through which our plots are irrigated, the same boundary-surveyor Palemon registered them in the category of sown land, although everyone draws water from it and not even […] were sown. I beseech your Excellency, since when Porphyrios the geometer remeasured, he acted justly and reported the sown land as sown and the dry land covered with sand as dry land, but Palemon the boundary-surveyor registered all the arouras as sown; and since Tapaeis daughter of Heras, my kinswoman, took flight, owning 23 arouras, which, being of the best quality, they assigned to her, having two […] […] so that, if it please you, you may order […] of that boundary-surveyor […]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 10526 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.col;7;172 tier-1
- HGV-Text 10526 tier-1
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