Declaration of Uninundated Land
Declaration of more than 5 arourai of uninundated land near Perseai, addressed to several officials by a Harpokration, from Arsinoiton polis
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Declaration of unflooded catoecic land near Perseai TM 12172Arsinoiton polis (or Perseai, Herakleidou meris), Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary 25, 170 A.D.
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A declaration by Harpokration, an inhabitant of the Arsinoite metropolis, to the strategos, the royal scribe and the village scribe of Perseai, reporting that 5 5/8 arouras of catoecic land near Perseai were not reached by the Nile flood in year 10. The village scribe Phaseis acknowledges receipt on Phamenoth 1 (25 February AD 170).
In English machine translation
[recto]
To Sarapion, strategos, and Serenos, royal scribe of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, and to the village scribe of Perseai,
from Harpokration son of Herakle(ides?), from the metropolis.
I register the 5 1/2 1/8 arouras of catoecic land belonging to me near the village of Perseai, registered in the name of Souchas son of Mysthes, as being unflooded for the present year 10. Therefore I submit this.
I, Phaseis, village scribe, have received the copy for examination. Phamenoth 1.
[verso]
Catoecic land of Perseai
[…] before Sarapion, strategos of the Arsinoite nome […]
Catoecic land was a category of privately held land originally granted to military settlers; declaring land as unflooded (abrochos) secured tax relief. The papyrus was found at Karanis, though the land lay near Perseai and the declarant came from the metropolis.
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 Uninundated 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.
p.mich.6.368
[r] Σαραπίωνι στρατηγῷ καὶ Σερήνῳ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος καὶ κωμογραμματεῖ Περσεῶν παρὰ Ἁρποκρατίωνος Ἡρακλε ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως. ἀπογράφομαι τὰς ὑπαρχούσας περὶ κώμην Περσεῶν κατοικικὰς ἀρούρας ε 𐅵 η σωματιζομένας εἰς Σουχᾶν Μύσθου οὔσας ἐν ἀβρόχῳ πρὸς …