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Fragment of a petition by a landowner at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome who owns half an aroura of catoecic land in a place called Koilas and complains that neighbours are encroaching on its boundaries. The petitioner asks that the village scribe be ordered to go to the site with a boundary-surveyor, remeasure the land and restore to each owner what is his.
The beginning (address and opening of the narrative) and the end are lost. Catoecic land was land originally allotted to military settlers and later held privately under special terms.
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.
ἐωνησάμην περὶ ὑπάρχουσί μοι περὶ κώμην Καρανίδα κλήρου κατοικικοῦ ἀρούρης 𐅵 ἐν τόπῳ Κοιλάδι λεγομένῳ. ἐπεὶ οὖν παρορίζομαι ὑπὸ τῶν γειτόνων, ἀξιῶ ἐπιταγῆναι τῷ τῆς κώμης κωμογραμματεῖ γενέσθαι ἐπὶ τοὺς τόπους σὺν τῷ ὁριοδείκτῃ καὶ ἀναμετρῆσαι τὴν πᾶσαν γῆν καὶ ἑκάστῳ τὸ ἴδιον ἀπ…
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