Copy of Declaration of Property
Copy of a return addressed by Petheus the elder son of Petheus to the bibliophylax Thrakidas, declaring his properties in and near Karanis and near Kerkesoucha
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Copy of a property declaration by Petheus the elder of Karanis TM 12034Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egyptca. 53 A.D.
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Copy of a property declaration submitted around AD 53 by Petheus the elder, a farmer on the Germanician imperial estate living at Karanis, to Thrakidas, keeper of the Arsinoite property record office. He lists an olive grove of 11 1/2 arouras, his house and courtyard, half of an olive press, farm buildings and dovecotes, a five-aroura catoecic allotment near Psenarpsenesis, and property near Kerkesoucha.
In English machine translation
Copy of a memorandum.
To Thrakidas, gymnasiarch and keeper of the record office (bibliophylax) of the archive in the Arsinoite nome,
from Petheus the elder, son of Petheus, grandson of Petheus, of those from Karanis in the division of Herakleides, a farmer of the Germanician estate. I own in the division of Herakleides, near Karanis, an olive grove in which there are old olive trees, being planted ground (?), together 11 1/2 arouras; and in the village a house and courtyard in which I live, and a half share of a private olive press and storage place (?); and in another place farm buildings and rooms and dovecotes; and near Psenarpsenesis a catoecic allotment of five arouras and an olive grove in which […] and near Kerkesoucha […] Therefore I submit (this declaration).
Filed in year […] of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month […] 29. I have signed.
The bibliophylax kept the property records (bibliotheke enkteseon) where owners registered their holdings. The Germanician estate (ousia) was imperial land named after Germanicus; a catoecic allotment was land originally granted to military settlers.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration of Property). 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.mich.9.540
ἀντίγραφον ὑπομνήματος Θρακίδᾳ γυμνασιάρχῳ καὶ βιβλιοφύλακι τῆς ἐν τῷ Ἀρσινοίτῃ βιβλιοθήκης παρὰ Πεθέως πρεσβυτέρου τοῦ Πεθέως τοῦ Πεθέως τῶν ἀπὸ Καρανίδος τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος γεωργοῦ οὐσίας Γερμανικιανῆς. ὑπάρχει μοι ἐν τῆι Ἡρακλείδου μερίδι περὶ μὲν τὴν Καρανίδα ἐλαιὼν ἐν ᾧ …