One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 29154

Fragment of a land survey with boundary descriptions TM 29154unbekanntII

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Fragment of a land survey listing plots of land with their neighbours on each side, such as canals, vineyards and land of named individuals like Apollonios and Psenarmoeis. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

on the west, adjoining (the land) of Apollonios son of P[…]…nos […] neighbours: on the south, a canal; Ph[…]…de[…] on the north […] on the west, the boundary of Psenarmoeis (?); on the north and on the west, adjoining (the land) of the same […] …[…] on the south, a vineyard […] […]pa…ee (?) a vineyard […] […] […]

The text lists boundaries (neighbours, Greek geitones) by cardinal direction, a standard format in land registers and contracts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Land Survey). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.bodl.1.133

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

λιβὶ ἐχόμενα Ἀπολλωνίου Π[…]…νος[…] γείτονες νότῳ διῶρυξ Φ[…]…δη[…]βορρᾷ[…] λιβὶ συνορία Ψεναρμόεως βορρᾷ καὶ λιβὶ ἐχόμενα τῶν αὐτῶν[…] …[…]νότῳ ἀμπελών[…] […]πα…εη ἀμπελών[…] [… 2 lines lost …] [… ? lines lost …]