Work on the Embankments
Part of a list of private embankments, referring to an embankment in process of construction, and a statement of the persons erecting it and the size of their holdings.
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Register of landholders assessed for work on a private embankment TM 20561Oxyrhynchos83-84 CE
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Part of a register of private embankments drawn up in the 3rd year of Domitian (AD 83/84) at Oxyrhynchos. It records an embankment called Papsis, built by assessment on the local landholders, and lists each person responsible with the size of their holding in arouras, totalling about 401 arouras.
In English machine translation
List of private embankments of the 3rd year of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, namely:
Of Tychis son of Nekos (?), the embankment called Papsis, which is being constructed by assessment, according to the number of arouras each holds, by the men listed below, 1/2 1/4 1/16 schoinion:
Of Horion son of Harpaesis, 16 arouras,
Demetrios and Theon, both sons of Didymos, in equal shares, 56 1/3,
Didyme daughter of Horion and Harthoonis son of Thoonis son of Harthoonis and Tanechotes daughter of Horion, 18,
Sambous daughter of Dionysios, 3,
Sarapion and Chairemon and Dionysia, the 3 children of Dionysios son of Sarapion son of Athenaios, 91,
Of those of the estate, through Horion the manager, 200,
Of Petsiris also called Antit[…] son of Petsiris, paid, through Totoes son of Onnophris, filling up (?) 1,
Tasentheus daughter of Onnophris, 2,
Tsenyris daughter of Ergeus, 3,
Strouthes son of Strouthes son of Petsiris, 1,
Herakleides son of Herakleides, filling up (?) 1,
Of Tiberius Claudius Sarapion son of Theon, 6,
Of Petsiris also called Aniketos, sons of Inaros, 3 1/2,
Total 401 1/2 1/3 arouras.
And on the west, the public embankment […] public […]
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The listed holdings add to about 401 5/6 arouras, matching the total. The abbreviated term rendered 'filling up' (apopimplas) is of uncertain meaning, perhaps referring to a completed share of earthwork.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Work on the Embankments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.2.290
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