A fragmentary land survey register from Panopolis, AD 197, describing numbered plots (582 to 588) formerly belonging to Claudius Polybianos and worked through various cultivators. Each entry gives area in arouras, rate, the portion of uncultivated dry land, and neighbouring features such as roads, embankments, hills and a temple precinct.
In English machine translation
[1]
[…] the following (plot), east and west […]
[…] of Polybianos, through Horos son of Psenamounis
[…] the following (plot).
[…] […]philos son of Peteesis
[…] arouras […] 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32, at 5 1/4
[…] east the previously inspected (land)
[…] and a hill.
[…] Tapeis(?), at 3 1/4
[…] east the previously inspected (land), north
[…]
[2]
Adjoining on the south […], north dry land, east a temple precinct, west […]
Adjoining on the south, a hill.
Adjoining on the south beyond the hill, formerly of Claudius Polybianos, through Horos,
582 […] at 4, 14 1/4 arouras, of which dry land 5 arouras. Neighbours: south a road and the previously inspected (land) […]
north […], east a temple precinct, west a narrow road.
Adjoining on the west beyond the narrow road, formerly of Claudius Polybianos, through […]
583 […] Horos, 13 1/2 1/8 1/16 arouras, of which at 4 […] arouras,
at […] 3 1/4 1/8 1/32 arouras, at 3 1/4, 3 1/4 1/16 1/32 arouras, of which dry land […] arouras
[…] Neighbours: south the following (plot), north a hill, east a road, west […]
Adjoining on the south, formerly of Claudius Polybianos, through Panechates son of Cha[…]
584 at […], 23 1/4 1/32 arouras, of which dry land 8 arouras. Neighbours: south the previously inspected (land), north
an embankment, east […], west an embankment and dry land […]
[3]
Adjoining on the north beyond the embankment, formerly of Claudius Polybianos, through […]
585 Kolanthos son of Haremephis, at […], 5 1/2 1/8 arouras.
Neighbours: […], east an embankment, north an embankment and dry land […]
586 Adjoining on the north, dry land.
Adjoining on the north beyond the dry land, formerly of Claudius Polybianos, through Harmiysis son of T[…]
587 3 1/2 […] arouras. Neighbours: east dry land, west the following (plot) […]
Adjoining on the west, formerly of Claudius Polybianos, through Pachoumis […]
588 75 1/2 1/4 1/8 arouras, of which at […] 1/16 […]
dry land 28 1/16 1/32 arouras.
Neighbours: south the following (plot), north […], east the previously inspected (land) […]
The rates 'at 4', 'at 3 1/4' probably indicate tax or rent rates per aroura. 'Dry land' (chersos) is unirrigated, uncultivated land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Description de parcelles cadastrales). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.