One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28103
Cession of 6 arouras of catoecic land at Karanis TM 28103Karanis (Arsinoites)II
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Fragment of a contract of cession (sale) of about 6 arouras of catoecic land at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, with the seller acknowledging full payment and guaranteeing the plot against taxes and claims. It dates to the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] at Karanis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome
[…] about 38 years old, with a scar on the first finger of the hand
[…] to those who will receive from them for transfer of registration, from the present day onward, the
[…] of 6 arouras of catoecic land, or however many there may be, in one parcel, and its appurtenances
[…] on the west a canal, on the east formerly the allotment of Tamystha daughter of Herakleides, and […] the instrument of transfer of registration and cession, as is proper, and that (s)he has received
[…] the capital sum in full, immediately, from hand to hand, out of the house, and will guarantee
[…] the allotment ceded as stated above with every guarantee, free from
[…] the artaba-tax and the naubion-tax and the arithmetikon-tax and every kind of charge from former times
[…] and from private claims and from every encumbrance for all time, and that no one is subject
[…] part, nor will (s)he proceed against it in any way, nor […]
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Catoecic land was originally held by military settlers and was transferred by 'cession' (parachoresis) with re-registration (metepigraphe) rather than outright sale. The artabieia, naubion and arithmetikon were taxes on such land.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
bgu.3.883
[…] δ ἐν Καρανίδι τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος τοῦ Ἀρσινοείτου νομοῦ […]υ ὡς ἐτῶν τριάκοντα ὀκτὼ οὐλὴ δακτύλῳ πρώτωι χειρὸς […]τοῖς παρʼ αὐτῶν μεταλημψομένοις εἰς μετεπιγραφὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐνεστώσης ἡμέρας ἐπὶ τὸν […]κατοικικοῦ ἀρουρῶν ἓξ ἢ ὅσων ἐὰν ὦσι ἐν μιᾷ σφραγῖδι καὶ τὰ συνκύροντα […]…