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Notice of registration of a cession of catoecic land near Palosis TM 20708Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)30. Jan. 100

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Notice from the officials in charge of registering catoecic land to the agoranomoi (notaries) at Oxyrhynchus, recording that the priest Arthothes the younger ceded about 1 1/4 arouras of grain land near Palosis to his full brother Arthothes the elder, also a priest and calf-sealer. Dated 30 January AD 100.

In English machine translation

Phanias and Diogenes also called Hermaios, those in charge of the katochismoi (registrations of catoecic land), to the agoranomoi, greetings. Arthothes the elder, son of Petarbebekis son of Arthothes, but by adoption son of Ampendis, priest of Thoeris and Isis and Sarapis and the associated most great gods, and calf-sealer, has had ceded to him by his full brother Arthothes the younger, priest of the same gods and calf-sealer, the 1 1/4 1/72 arouras of catoecic grain-bearing sown land, by rectangular measure, belonging to him near Palosis in the kleros of Andronikos, out of the arouras held in common with the person ceding and others. Therefore we write to you so that you may know. Farewell. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, Mecheir 4, Sebaste day.

Katalochismos was the transfer and registration of catoecic (settler) land; the officials notify the agoranomoi so that the cession can be recorded. A 'calf-sealer' (moschosphragistes) was a priest who certified sacrificial animals as ritually pure.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Land Distribution). 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 · 30. Jan. 100 · Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)

Φανίας καὶ Διογένης ὁ καὶ Ἑρμαῖος οἱ ἀσχολούμενοι τοὺς καταλοχισμοὺς τοῖς ἀγορανόμοις χαίρειν. Ἀρθώθου πρεσβυτέρου Πεταρβεβήκιος τοῦ Ἀρθώθου, θέσει δὲ Ἀμπένδιος, ἱερέως Θοήριδος καὶ Ἴσιδος καὶ Σαράπιδος καὶ τῶν συννάων θεῶν μεγίστων καὶ μοσχοσφραγιστοῦ, παρακεχωρημένου παρὰ τοῦ ὁ…