Declaration of land (?)
This text might be a declaration of land, where the names of the emperors refer to an imperial edict ordering the registration of land.
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Fragment of what appears to be a land declaration addressed to Aurelius Ailourion also called Hesychios, dated by the consuls and regnal years of the Tetrarchs. The surviving lines record plots measured in arouras, a neighbouring property of the heirs of Apheus, a water channel on the east, and sown land. It comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome in AD 303.
The mention of the emperors in the address probably refers to an imperial order for the registration of land, as in other declarations of this period. The aroura was the standard Egyptian land measure, about 0.68 acre.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration of Land (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
This text might be a declaration of land, where the names of the emperors refer to an imperial edict ordering the registration of land.
ἐπὶ ὑπάτων τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ τὸ η καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ τὸ ζ. ἔτους ἐννεακαιδεκάτου καὶ ἔτους ιη τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν καὶ ἔτους ια τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων[…] Αὐρηλίωι Αἰλουρίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἡσυχίωι[…]παρ…
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