One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27546
Offer to lease catoecic land near Karanis TM 27546Karanis (Arsinoites)2. Hälfte II
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Opening of an offer to lease land, addressed by Deios son of Paesis of Karanis to Sempronius Longinus. He proposes to lease catoecic allotment land owned by Longinus in the plain of Psenarpsenesis near Karanis, in the Arsinoite nome, in the second half of the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
To Sempronius Longinus, and however he is styled,
from Deios son of Paesis, from the village of Karanis.
I wish to lease from you
the [land] belonging to you near the village of
Karanis, in the plain of Psenarpsenesis, of a catoecic allotment
[…]
Catoecic land (kleros katoikikos) was land originally granted to military settlers and later held as heritable private property. The text breaks off before the terms of the lease.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Location de terre catoecique). 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.alex.giss.6
Σεμπρωνίῳ Λογγείνῳ καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει παρὰ Δείου Παήσιος ἀπὸ κώμης Καρανίδος. βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὰ ὑπάρχοντά σοι περὶ κώμην Καρανίδα πεδίου Ψεναρψενήσεως κλήρου κατοικικοῦ [… ? lines lost …]