Fragments of an official document listing landed property (grain land, vineyards, gardens, a three-storeyed house) held by individuals in various villages, apparently in connection with debts or a property inquiry involving a gymnasiarch and the nome strategos. Dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A]
and bare plot, and near the village of Magdola of the Polemon division, a share […] of vineyard
with trees for training vines, at Sph…r and […]
4 arouras of grain land; and in the same village a three-storeyed house […]
… wine store and storehouse […]
lying, and a half share and […]
Berenike daughter of Deios, Thermoph…[…]
of the same, 79 arouras of grain land, and near […]
in the Herakleides division, near the village […]
of the same division 1 1/2 arouras, and near […]
of the same division 2 arouras, and near […]
village, 4 arouras or however many there may be […]
Aphroditopolis, Adrast[…]
…gchis, 1 1/4 1/32 arouras […]
which the aforementioned, being […]
of a loan, exacted […]
and next, of the name […]
[…] written […]
[… 7 lines lost …]
[Fragment B]
[…] of Ischyras, gymnasiarch of Herakleopolis […]
[…] communicated by Herakleides, former scribe […]
[…] to Alexandros and to the strategos of the nome […]
[…] I have written so that […] may be written […]
[…] his […] the deficiency, if […]
[…] here nothing was learned that […]
[…]
[…] and Kallinikos […]
[…] in the Herakleopolite nome […]
[…] from the (holding) of Eumachos […]
[…] from 5 arouras […]
[…] of having […]
[…] near Ibion Panektyreos […]
[…] and another 1 aroura and […]
[…] from the (holding) of Kallinikos […]
[…] and the exit of the house […]
[… 6 lines lost …]
[Fragment C]
near Kirka in the Mochites (toparchy)
[…] and undivided 50 arouras, of garden 12 arouras, with the […]
[…] near the same Kirka 21 1/4 arouras […] likewise […]
[…] of Ibion Panektyreos, from the holding of Kelles […]
[…] and in the Pasko near Mnachis 21 1/4 arouras […]
[…] 380 drachmas, 950 drachmas; and from the (holding) of Seuthes […]
[…] from 25 arouras, of which from the (holding) of The…[…]
[…] 9 1/2 arouras from those at […]
[…] of the same holdings and … and from Apol[…]
[…] aforementioned 8 1/4 arouras
[… 12 lines lost …]
[…]
Place names (Magdola in the Polemon division, Herakleides division, Herakleopolis) point to the Arsinoite and Herakleopolite nomes rather than the recorded Hermopolite provenance. Kleroi named after holders (Kelles, Seuthes, Eumachos) are original military allotments.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammenti di documento). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.