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Fragment of a petition from Oxyrhynchus in which a farmer who cultivates only 3 arouras asks an official to hand over to him 1 aroura of land, citing an order of the dioiketes Septimius Apollonius that each person's property be surveyed and returned, so that he can pay the taxes on it. It is dated to year 3 of Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus (AD 252-253).
The dioiketes was a senior financial official. The verb translated 'survey' literally means 'tread over', a term for inspecting land on foot.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] Ἀδύμου κληρ[…]…[…]…[…] μόνας δὲ γεωργῶ ἀρούρας γ. νῦν δὲ τοῦ κρατίστου διοικητοῦ Σεπτιμίου Ἀπολλωνίου κελεύσαντός σοι καταπατῆσαι καὶ παραδοῦναι ἑκάστῳ τὴν ἰδίαν κτῆσιν αὐτὸ τοῦτό σε ἀξιῶ τὴν παράδοσίν μοι ποιήσῃ τῆς ἀρούρης α, ὅπως δυνηθῶ τὰ ὑπὲρ τούτων δημόσι…
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