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Report of a pagus secretary and surveyor on handover of land to Theon TM 22571Oxyrhynchos352

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Report to Flavius Paianios, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the secretary of the 1st pagus and a public surveyor. Acting on a petition from the councillor Aurelius Theon and on the prefect's orders, they inspected and remeasured land near the villages of Mermertha and Keuothis to hand it over, recording areas including unsown land overgrown with rushes. Written at Oxyrhynchus in AD 352.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of our masters Constantius Augustus for the 5th time and Constantius the most noble Caesar for the 1st time. To Flavius Paianios, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii […]theos son of Eusebios, secretary of the 1st pagus, and […]os, public surveyor of the same city. We were instructed by your diligence, on the basis of a petition submitted to you by Aurelius Theon son of Ammonios, councillor of the same city, in accordance with the orders of the most perfect prefect Flavius Areianus Alypius, to carry out the handing over of the land […] by him (?) in the fields of the village of Mermertha near Keuothis. Therefore, having come to the fields, […] Ioannes from Keuothis, called […], […] the aforementioned Theon in the (holding) of Kodibithys […] Tnephersois also called Sousanna […] from … 1/2 arouras through census, of which […] of the same Tnephersois according to the […] 9 1/2 1/4; and in the remeasurement carried out […] 8 arouras, and to the north of these, in rushes, […] under the aforementioned Theon, from […] north of these, in rushes, 2 1/2 arouras; and the […] unsown, in rushes, 8 arouras […]. Therefore we report. […] petitions (?) as aforesaid. […]

The pagus was a rural administrative district of the nome in the 4th century. Many figures and names in the land description are lost, so the exact areas involved are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report to the Strategus). 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 · 352 · Oxyrhynchos

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