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Land register of plots of the Severian estate TM 28867Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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Fragmentary land register from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome, 2nd century AD, listing plots with areas in arouras, including a rose garden, olive and palm groves and other plantings. Many parcels belong to the Severian estate, and one entry records a boundary survey and fallen or felled palm trees involving Chairemon alias Zenas.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] […] 17 1/2 1/8 arouras, in which a rose garden of 1/4 […] and other plants […] … a boundary-marking having taken place [and] the boundary-surveyor declared, saying … […] by Chairemon alias Zenas, and cut down […] 5 [date] palms and others fallen, 4, and there remain […] […] of the Severian estate, … 1 1/32 1/64 arouras, of which olive grove 1 1/2 … […] palm grove 2 1/2 1/4 arouras … […] sown(?) 3 1/32 1/64 arouras […] … and other plants of the Severian estate, olive grove […] palm groves and other plants and in the village […] of the Severian estate […] … and […] […] and a mill-house and a tower and […] and next to this […] tower [Column 2] […] […] […] […] of the same estate […] palm […] […] […] […] of the Severian estate […] […] […] of the same estate […] of the same estate […] of which […] ben-nut (myrobalanos) […] […] and in the […]

The Severian estate (ousia) was a large private estate later absorbed into imperial property. A horiodeiktes was an official who identified and marked field boundaries.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Registro catastale). 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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p.mil.vogl.4.251

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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