One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18030
Fragment of a cadaster with land registrations and grain dues TM 18030unbekannt147 - 148
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Fragment of a land register (cadaster) listing plots measured in arouras, recorded as registered by various individuals including a steward, a nomarch's estate and the village elders, with totals of wheat and barley dues and a one-percent surcharge. It dates to AD 147-148.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…]
[…] arouras […] registered […]
[…] arouras […] registered likewise,
[…] arouras […] registered by Antonius […], steward (epitropos) of Apion, [formerly] of Ptolemaios also called Aperos, nomarch, and of the above-mentioned elders,
14 arouras registered by Agathos Daimon also called Hierax, eutheniarch(?),
[…] 15 1/2 arouras registered by the same,
[…] arouras registered likewise,
[…] arouras registered likewise,
[…] arouras registered likewise,
27 arouras registered likewise,
[…] 1/2 arouras registered likewise,
6 arouras registered likewise,
2 arouras registered likewise,
2 arouras registered by the above-mentioned elders.
Total 217 1/8 1/16 1/32 arouras; wheat 439 1/2 1/24 1/48 1/96 artabas;
[one-percent charge] 5 1/2 1/3 1/48 1/96 artabas; total 445 1/3 1/12 1/48 artabas;
[barley 63] 1/2 1/12 1/48 artabas; total 509 1/24 artabas.
[Through] cleruchs 318 1/16 1/32 1/64 arouras;
5 1/2 1/3 1/8 1/48 arouras
[…] royal (land), at 1 2/3 artabas of wheat each, 125 1/200(?)
[…] 1/6 1/15 1/75(?)
[…] 2 1/24 1/96
[…]ron son of Palas
[…] and the other elders of the village
[…]
[column 2]
[…]
Total […]
one-percent charge […] artabas […]
barley […]
total […]
[…]
[…]
one-percent charge 1 […] artabas […]
and through cleruchs […]
1st parcel (sphragis): 5 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 arouras […]
of this and […] inspection […] took place […]
2nd parcel (sphragis) […]
[…]
The fractional figures are written as sums of unit fractions in the original; some readings of the smaller fractions are uncertain. A sphragis is a numbered parcel or block of land in the survey.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a cadaster). 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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[column 1] [… ? lines lost …] ἄρουραι […] ἀπογραφεῖσαι […] ἄρουραι […]… ἀπογραφεῖσαι ὁμοίως, ἄρουραι […]… ἀπογραφεῖσαι ὑπὸ Ἀντωνίου […]…ου ἐπιτρόπου Ἀπίωνος πρότερον Πτολεμαίου τοῦ καὶ Ἀπερῶτος νομάρχου καὶ τῶν ἐπάνω πρεσβυτέρων ἄρουραι ιδ ἀπογραφεῖσαι ὑπὸ Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος τοῦ καὶ…