One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121952
Register of landholders with vineyard, orchard, royal and private land TM 121952From: Oxyrhynchite nomeca. 200 CE
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A fragment from sheet 37 of a long roll listing landholders in the Oxyrhynchite nome with the type of land they held (royal, private, vineyard, orchard) and the area in arouras. It dates to around AD 200.
In English machine translation
(Sheet) 37 of the roll
[…] …thon and
Sarapion, both (sons) of Neo[…]
[…] royal (land), 3[…] arouras
[…] royal (land), by agreement, 4[…] arouras
[…] vineyard likewise
[…] Dioskoros son of Dioskoros, vineyard, from (the land) through (?), 6 1/4 […] arouras
[…] Apollonios and Dionysios, both sons of Komon, [vineyard and]
[…] orchard, from (the land) through (?), 1 1/2 (?) arouras
[…] Marcus Antonius Dionysios through Septimius […]
[…] son of Diogenes, vineyard, from (the land) through (?), 15[…] arouras
[…] Agathinos son of Polemon, vineyard, from (the land) through (?), […] arouras
[…] on behalf of Sinkepha, metropolitan (?) […]
[…] Horion also called Berenikianos, through his guardian […]
[…] son of Diogenes, private (land), […] arouras
[…] heirs of Apion son of Euangelos, […] arouras
[…]oros son of Deios, private (land), 1 1/6 (arouras), year 9
[…]mach[…]
[… lines lost …]
The recurring abbreviation ἐκ δι(...) is of uncertain meaning and is rendered tentatively. Royal land was state-owned land leased to cultivators, distinct from private land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Land List). 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.nyu.2.36
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