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Land inspection register listing plots and boundaries TM 17950Panopolis197

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Fragmentary register from a land inspection (episkepsis) at Panopolis in AD 197, listing plots with their areas in arouras, their neighbours on each side, and notes on land previously inspected or classed as unproductive.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] …machos (?) […] 23 1/4 1/16 1/32 arouras […] next in order, to the east a dyke, to the west along the […] […] […] Pelerautos (?) 19 1/16 arouras […] next in order, to the east a dyke, to the west along the […] […] […] adjoining, of Soter son of Haryotes, 91 1/4 arouras […] next in order, to the east a dyke, to the west along the […] […] […] 51 1/8 (?) [column 2] […] […] …umianos (?) 1/4 1/20 (?) Pele…rautos (?) […] to the east a road […] […] of …udios (?) … 3 1/4, 25 1/4 arouras … arouras … […] […] […] … in place of (?) … […] Psane, Psenmench (?) […] previously inspected, … of the unproductive land [column 3] […] […] … and … adjoining […] […] …thaminos (?) Psen… […] […] the previously inspected (land), to the north … […] […] […] adjoining, formerly of Claudius […] […] total, to the south and west the previously inspected (land) […] […] […] adjoining, formerly of Claudius […] … 2 1/8 arouras, total … […] next in order […] […] … of Polybios son of … […] […] to the east the previously inspected (land) […]

The episkepsis was an official survey of land, especially to check for flooded or unproductive (hypologos) land for tax purposes. Many readings and fractions are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Documents relatifs à l’ ἐπίσκεψις). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 197 · Panopolis

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