Official register of private vineyards and a palm grove at Theadelphia whose tax assessment was reduced because the land had lain dry in earlier years, listing owners, areas, neighbours and old and new valuations. It is dated 2 May 141 AD, with later notes and accounts of tax payments added.
In English machine translation
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Neighbours of the whole: south, a canal; north, land of Apollonios son of Apollonios; east, vineyard of Tamystha and others; west, a canal.
Of Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios, victor in the sacred games: vineyard, 4 1/4 1/16 arouras, assessed by the assessors up to year 3 at 2,500 drachmas, but worth as of year 3 500 drachmas, because in the previous years they had been in dry land, to be classed under the public (dues) and the 1/4 part of the survey.
Neighbours: south and north, vineyard; west, a canal; east, unproductive dry land.
Of Asklepiades son of Korax: vineyard, 2 1/2 arouras, assessed by the
[margin] 600
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assessors up to year 3 at 600 drachmas, but worth as of the same year 3 the price of unproductive land, because in the previous years they had been in dry land, and in year 2 and year 3 to be classed under the public categories.
Neighbours: south, a water channel, after which a vineyard; north, a water channel, after which dry land; east, a vineyard; west, a palm grove.
Of Gaius Philoclanius Proculus: a 1/3 share of a palm grove, 3 arouras, assessed by the assessors up to year 3 at 68 drachmas, but worth as of year 3
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the price of unproductive land, because in the previous years they had been in dry land, and in year 2 and year 3 to be classed under the public categories and the 1/4 part of the survey. Neighbours: south […] and on some part […] Kerkes[…] west […]
Year 4 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pachon 7.
Year 11 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord […] year 11 […] of the lord […]
[A]
[…] drachmas
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[…] 3 1/4 arouras
[…] 1/4
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[B]
240
213
another 27 drachmas
for arithmetikon 50 drachmas
for naubion 20 drachmas 17 obols
total 552 drachmas 3 obols
of which 100 drachmas, another 80 drachmas, another 60 drachmas, another 80 drachmas
total 368 drachmas
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Thermion son of Satabous to Athenarion son of Pankrates, of the katoikoi, 200 (drachmas) of bronze.
Arithmetikon and naubion are Egyptian land-related taxes with no English equivalent. A later note dated to year 11 of Marcus Aurelius Caesar (AD 147/8) was added after the main text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Relevé de détaxations de plantations privées). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.