A fragment of a land register from the Herakleopolite nome, 5th century AD, listing landholders such as Anoupis, Paulos, the coppersmith Phoibammon and Esaias with the plains and irrigation basins where their parcels lay, with numbered entries or areas.
In English machine translation
[… ? lines lost …]
[…] […] […]
[…] of the plain (?) Tocho[…]
[…]poule[…]
[…] son of Sarapammon […]
[…]gos and Isakos […]
[…] son of Peennatis […]
[…]chos son of Ammonios […]
Anoupis son of Pasis, of the plain […]
(of the same) 111, basin of Palleu…e[…]
(of the same) 16, basin of Kokkon […]
(of the same) 11, basin of Panousieeiou[…]
(of the same) 19, basin of Psansake […]
of the plain Phys 10, basin of Tareta…[…]
4, basin of Paloou […]
Paulos son of Pamoun, of the plain Tha[…]
(of the same) 14, basin of Moulion […]
of the same 5 arouras […]
(of the same) 14, basin of Tousia […]
Phoibammon, coppersmith, of the plain […]
Panous son of Sieou […]
Esaias son of Phais, of the plain Ph[…]
"Plain" (pedion) and "basin" (koite) are units of the agricultural landscape. The numbers after "of the same" may be parcel numbers or areas; only one entry explicitly gives arouras.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Landregister mit Parzellenangaben). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.