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Land register with grain dues from Ankyron TM 27865Ankyron (Herakleopolites)II

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A fragmentary register of land plots with their grain yields or dues, listing holders such as Olympos son of Apion and noting private and revenue land, neighbours, and quantities of wheat, barley and olyra. It comes from Ankyron in the Herakleopolite nome and dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[verso] [... lines lost ...] [...] ... of the excavations (?) Ali[...] [...] ... [...] ... artabas [...] [...] ... wheat 100 artabas, receipts (?) [...] [...] in the name of Ptolemaios son of Kaim, Olympos son of Apion, Kaim son of Onophris [...] [...]nis and Men... [...]ches Phar... [...]tas; to the north, the centurion Horos [...] ... 110 artabas of private land Toegoit... [...] [...] land and Kon[...] son of Apollonios, arouras [...] [...] 29 [...] and from [...] artabas [...] [...] and from 12 1/6 artabas, of which ... [...] [...] 31 1/6 1/24 artabas, grain 2 artabas, barley [...] [...] of revenue land in the name of Olympos son of Apion and in the name [...] [...] olyra 1 artaba; when (?) to the north, olyra 9 artabas, total 10 artabas. [...] ... of revenue land, wheat 25 1/2, olyra 10 1/2 artabas ... [...] measurement of Apollophanes, private individual, Apollonios ... from the excavations [...] [...] and son Apollonios and Apion 16 2/3 artabas ⟦wheat 33 1/2⟧ wheat 11 (?), olyra 11 (?)

Olyra is an ancient husked wheat (emmer) with no exact English equivalent. 'Revenue land' (prosodos) denotes state land yielding rents, contrasted with private land.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Grundstücksverzeichnis (mit Steuererträgnis) bzw. Getreideabrechnungen). 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 · Ankyron (Herakleopolites)

[v] [… ? lines lost …] […]… ὀρυγμάτων Ἀλι[…] […]ων ἀπον[…]… ἀρταβ[…] […]… πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι ρ λημματ[…] […]ὀνόματι Πτολεμαίου Καιμ, Ὀλύμπου Ἀπίωνος, Καιμ Ὀνοφρίου[…] […]νις καὶ Μεν…[…]χης Φαρ…[…]…τας, βορρᾶ ἑκατόνταρχος Ὧρος […]…ευ ἀρτάβαι ρι ἰδιωτικῆς Τοηγοιτ…[…] […]ρων γῆς καὶ Κων[…