One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27314

Register of land plots and crops TM 27314ArsinoitesII

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A fragmentary survey or register of land plots in the Arsinoite nome, listing allotments (kleroi) of Herakleides and Heliodoros with acreages of sown, dry and grain land, and items such as palm groves and figs. The verso mentions something 'Jewish', possibly a tax or account. AD 2nd century.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] Of the kleros of Herakleides Of the kleros of Heliodoros Of sown land, arouras Of dry land, arouras In grain land, arouras Of Ptolemais [recto, column 2] Palm grove 15 Figs 5 2 Heather (?) 7 Of sown and dry land […] In grain land […] In […]-planted (?) […] […] and […] and […] of the old […] […] fruit-bearing (?) […] through bare land […] […] and from the station (?) […] […] sown […] [verso] Of the Jewish (?) […] declared (?) […] […] […] [… 5 lines lost …] those being of the […]

A kleros was an allotment of land originally granted to a military settler. The word read as 'Jewish' on the verso may refer to the Jewish tax or to a district, but the context 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 Relevé de terrains). 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 · II · Arsinoites

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