Return of unwatered land
Report concerning unflooded land.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21541
Declaration of unwatered land by Tiberius Claudius Zoilos TM 21541Oxyrhynchos163/64 A.D.
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A declaration of unwatered land submitted by Tiberius Claudius Zoilos in response to official orders, for the 4th regnal year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and breaks off where the location and extent of the land would have been given.
In English machine translation
From Tiberius Claudius Zoilos. In accordance with the orders concerning the declaration of unwatered land, I declare for the present 4th year of Antoninus and Verus, the Caesars, the lords, the arouras belonging to me around E[…]
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Landholders declared land that the Nile flood had failed to reach (abrochos) so that it could be assessed for tax relief. The name of the locality after "around E" is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Returns of Unwatered 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.
p.oslo.3.101
παρὰ Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ζωίλου. κατὰ τὰ κελευσθέντα περὶ ἀπογραφῆς ἀβρόχου ἀπογράφομαι πρὸς τὸ ἐνεστὸς δ ἔτος Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων τῶν κυρίων τὰς ὑπαρχούσας μοι περὶ Ἐ…[…]ἀρούρας […]ων…[…] […]…οι[…] […]ν…[…] [… ? lines lost …]