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Report of a land inspection on flooded and unproductive parcels TM 21039unbekannt209 - 210

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A page from a land survey (episkepsis) report recording the state of a parcel of land held by Heron and others, giving its assessed rent in wheat and barley and its history of being unproductive or flooded over many years. It mentions inspections by the procurators Pompeius Celerius and Claudius Alexander and was written in AD 209-210.

In English machine translation

[column 1] [… lines lost …] [column 2] The inspection is set out below. Second parcel (sphragis), east of these, lying between the village and the road [leading] to the metropolis as far as the water channel, from the [parcels] above. Of Heron and others likewise; of which the rent was assessed [in sown land] at 213 1/16 1/32 arouras, 526 1/6 1/48 artabas of wheat, 84 1/3 1/24 artabas of barley; brick-making [ground 2 1/4 arouras], threshing floors 2 arouras, total 4 1/4 arouras, which are subject to a rent of 2[3 1/2 1/4 1/12 1/24 artabas of wheat, total] 550 1/24 [1/48] artabas of wheat, 84 1/3 1/24 artabas of barley. In year 1 inspected [263 1/2 1/8 1/16 arouras as being unproductive (hypologos)], of which threshing floors 2 arouras, brick-making ground 2 1/4 arouras, land uncovered late 44 1/4 1/16 1/64 arouras, salty dry land 186 1/4 arouras, in year 1 dry unsown land inspected instead of sown land 28 2/3 1/16 1/32 1/64 arouras; in year 2 […], from year 5 to year 7 the inspection did not take place; in year 8 they were inspected [by Pompeius] Celerius, the most excellent procurator of the lords [Augusti, being] under water; in the following year 9 up to year 15 they were [inspected] as being under water; in year 16 and the past year 17 by Claudius Alexander, the most excellent procurator of the lords Augusti, inspected in agreement, and inspected also in the present year 18 in the same condition, [being under] water, which were also registered by the above elders in sheet 92 [as being under water]. Neighbours, including the hollow of 1/4 aroura lying in the middle of the [parcels] above: in the middle wild tamarisk trees; south, a field road; north […]; west, the aforementioned parcel and in part the village; east […]. The inspection is set out below.

Episkepsis was the official inspection of land to determine whether it was productive and liable to rent; 'hypologos' land was written off as unproductive. The regnal years refer to the reigns of Septimius Severus and his sons, year 18 being AD 209/210.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Blatt aus einem Bericht über Kataster - Revision). 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.hamb.1.12

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 209 - 210

[1] [… ? lines lost …] [2] ἡ ἐπίσκεψις ἑξῆς δηλοῦται. β σφραγῖδος ἀπηλιώτου τούτων, ἀνὰ μέσον οὔσης κώμης καὶ ὁδοῦ ἀγούσης εἰς τὴν μητρόπολιν ἕως ὑδραγωγοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπάνω σφραγίδων. Ἥρωνος καὶ ἄλλων ὁμοίως· ὧν ὁ φόρος ἐπεσκέφθη ἐν σπόρου ἀρούραις σιγ ιϛ λβ πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν φκϛ ϛ μη κ…