Cession of a Catoecic Allotment
Subscription to a contract by which Kronion, son of Maron, a Macedonian of the catoecic cavalry, cedes to Maron the younger, son of Patron, a catoecic holding of three and one-eighth arourai near Talei
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Cession of a catoecic allotment near Talei TM 15172Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIst century A.D.
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Subscription to a contract in which Kronion son of Maron, a Macedonian of the catoecic cavalry, cedes to Maron the younger, son of Patron, a catoecic allotment of 3 1/8 arouras near Talei, with its neighbours and irrigation rights described. It dates to the 1st century AD, from the Arsinoite nome (Tebtynis).
In English machine translation
I, Kronion son of Maron, Macedonian, of the catoecic cavalrymen, acknowledge that I have ceded to Maron the younger, son of Patron, so that it belongs to him and his descendants and his assigns for transfer of registration, from the present day for all time, the catoecic allotment belonging to me near Talei, of 3 1/8 arouras or however many more they may be; whose neighbours are: on the south, the allotment of Horos son of Patron; on the north, the allotment of Apollonios my brother, through which the aforesaid 3 1/8 arouras are irrigated, by way of the (channels?) of Apollonios my brother; on the west, the allotment of Hermas, now of Maronas my brother, and likewise the aforesaid 3 1/8 arouras are irrigated through the water-channel further upstream, the one to the north of the arouras of Maronas; on the east, a royal canal.
[…] 1/8, for which I shall also carry out the appropriate procedures for the transfer of registration to Maron and for the cession […]
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A catoecic allotment (kleros) was land originally granted to military settlers; its 'cession' was in effect a sale registered by transfer (metepigraphe) in the official records. The end of the text is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Cession of a Catoecic Allotment). 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.5.303
Κρονίων Μάρωνος Μακεδὼν τῶν κατοίκων ἱππέων ὁμολογῶ παρακεχωρηκέναι Μάρωνι νεωτέρῳ Πάτρωνος ὥστε αὐτῷ καὶ ἐκγόνοις αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῖς παρʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς μετεπιγραφὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐνεστώσης ἡμέρας ἐπὶ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον τὸν ὑπάρχοντά μοι περὶ Ταλεὶ κλῆρον κατοικικὸν ἀρουρῶν τριῶν ὀγδόου ἢ ὅσαι …