One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10074
Declaration of assigned cleruchic land by public farmers of Karanis TM 10074Karanis (Arsinoites)202 - 204
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Beginning of a land declaration addressed to the royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome by Sabinus son of Ptolemaios and the other public farmers of Karanis. Following orders of the imperial procurator Claudius Diognetus, they register cleruchic land assigned to them. It dates to AD 202-204.
In English machine translation
To Kanopos also called Asklepiades, royal scribe of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Sabinus son of Ptolemaios and the other public farmers of the village of Karanis […] cleruchic (land).
In accordance with the orders of the most excellent procurator of our lords the Augusti, Claudius Diognetus, we register the cleruchic (land) [assigned] to us […]
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Public farmers (demosioi georgoi) cultivated state land; the land here was compulsorily assigned (epibole) to them. The rest of the text is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Déclaration de terres). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.alex.giss.1
Κανώπῳ τῷ καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος παρὰ Σαβείνου Πτολεμαίου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν δημοσίων γεωργῶν κώμης Καρανίδος τ[…]… κληρουχ. κατὰ τὰ κελευσθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου ἐπιτρόπου τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν Κλαυδίου Διογνήτου ἀπογραφόμεθα τὴν ἐπιβληθεῖσαν ἡ…