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Declaration of unwatered land at Karanis TM 10008Karanis (Arsinoites)202 - 204

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A declaration of unwatered (unflooded) land at the village of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, submitted under orders of the imperial procurator Claudius Diognetus. It lists plots of royal land and of the Senecan and Maecenatian imperial estates by their rent rates in wheat, declared as unwatered for the tenth regnal year.

In English machine translation

[…] 24 of the kleruchy (?). In accordance with the orders of the most excellent procurator of our lords the Augusti, Claudius Diognetus, we register the […] […] to us around the aforesaid village of Karanis: of royal land at 5 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat per aroura, […] arouras […]; at 4 1/4 1/18 artabas, 10 1/2 1/8 arouras; at 4 […] artabas of wheat, […] arouras […]; of the Senecan estate, at 4 artabas of wheat, 1 1/2 arouras; at […] artabas of wheat […]; of the Maecenatian estate of Psenarpsenesis, at 6 artabas of wheat, […] arouras […]; which are unwatered, for the current tenth year. Therefore we submit (this declaration). Registered with the strategos […] […]

Unwatered (abrochos) land was not reached by the Nile flood and could be exempted from rent or tax; such declarations were ordered by Claudius Diognetus around AD 202. The 'tenth year' is presumably that of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (AD 201/2).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Return of Unwatered Land). 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 · 202 - 204 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

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