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Description of plots of land with their neighbours TM 24930unbekanntI

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Fragment of a description of plots of land, listing parcels with their areas in arouras and their neighbours on each side, including allotment boundaries and estate land. It dates to the 1st century AD, from Roman Egypt.

In English machine translation

[…] […] arouras at the rate of [… artabas] per aroura […] […] of Philotarion daughter (?) of Eumelos […] [… on the east] a field, on the west the boundary of the allotment, of the second [parcel] […] [arouras …] 1/16 1/32 1/64 1/128, [of which the neighbours are …] […] and others, on the north the heirs [of …] […] of Apollonios son of Apollonios and others […] [arouras …] 1/32, of which the neighbours are on the south a field, [on the north …] […] of Tasemtheus, on the west of Tasouchos […] [… in two] parcels, of which of one parcel [arouras …] […] on the east the boundary of the allotment, on the west […] […] 6 arouras, neighbours on the south […] [… and in] part estate land, on the east […] […] of the common […] 4 arouras, of which [the neighbours on the south …] [… the] boundary of the allotment. And from the (allotment) of Philon […] […] 2 arouras, of which the neighbours on the south […] […] […]

"Estate land" (ousiake ge) refers to land of the great imperial or private estates of early Roman Egypt; a "kleros" is a former military allotment.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Beschreibung von Landstücken). 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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p.koeln.4.194

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · I

[… ? lines lost …] […]αρταβιαίας ἄρουραι[…] […]ον Φιλωταρίου Εὐμήλου[…] […]ἀπηλιώτῃ γύης, λιβὶ ὅριον κλήρου, δευτέρας σφραγῖδος[…] ἄρουραι[…]ἑκκαιδέκατον δυοτριακοστὸν ἑκατοστὸν εἰκοστὸν ὄγδοον , ὧν γείτονες […]δος καὶ ἄλλων, βορρᾷ κληρονόμων τοῦ δεῖνος[…] […] Ἀπολλωνίου Ἀπολλωνί…