Fragment of a land register from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, listing cultivators grouped under pittakiarchs with the areas in arouras each farms, including royal, Severian and katoikic land. It dates to the second half of the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[column 2]
By individual cultivators:
pittakiarch Phaesis son of Horos, 11 1/4 arouras
pittakiarch Petesouchos son of Didymos, 49 1/8 1/16 arouras, of which
Petesouchos son of Didymos 4 arouras, Athen[…] son of Isch[…] 22 1/8 1/16 arouras
Herak[…] oil-seller 8 1/2 arouras
Papos son of Anik[…] 5 arouras
Mysthes son of Onnophris 9 1/2 arouras
pittakiarch Pekysis son of Pnepheros, 21 1/8 1/16 arouras, of which
himself 16 1/8 1/16 arouras
Papos son of Petesouchos 5 arouras
Likewise, from the canal of Aphrodisios son of Horos up to the threshing floor
of Apollonios, likewise, of the katoikoi:
Petesouchos son of Sokrates 3 arouras
Alexion son of Herak[…] 7 arouras
Theon son of Autokratides 7 arouras
Louk[…] wine-seller 4[…] arouras
Heron son of Mysthes 12[…] arouras
Kastor, likewise, 6 1/2 arouras
pittakiarch Heron son of Petesouchos, vegetable-seller, of royal land 33 arouras,
of Severian land 25 arouras, total 58 arouras, of which
Heron son of Petesouchos 13 1/6 1/2 arouras and 6 1/2
Sambas son of Sabinus 3 arouras and 5 2/3 arouras
Sarapion son of Petermouthis 5 1/4 1/16 arouras and 3 2/3 [1/8 1/16] arouras
Kastor son of Philotas 6 1/2 arouras, another 3 arouras
Papos son of Nikandros 6 1/2 arouras, another 3
Deiphilos son of Kialat[…] 5 arouras, another 6.
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And west of the canal, from the watering place:
pittakiarch Paesis son of Horos […]
through Ision son of Herakleides […] arouras
pittakiarch Nephoreus […]
and in the 1/2 aroura No[…]
of which Nephoreus holds […]
Dioskoros son of Paesis […]
Sphyris son of Petesouchos […]
pittakiarch Heron […]
Mysthes son of Panesneus […] arouras
Ptolemaios son of Mar[…]
Paesis son of Au[…]
Maron son of Pnepheros […]
pittakiarch Peteeus son of He[…]
pittakiarch […]
[… 5 lines lost …]
pittakiarch […]
Ptollas […]
Horos son of Panesneus […]
Ision son of Papos […]
A pittakiarch was the head of a 'pittakion', a unit of land parcels for which he answered; Severian land was a former private estate absorbed into imperial holdings.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de cadastre concernant des terres de pittakia et catéciques). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.