List of Land
List of various parcels of land
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30523
List of parcels of public land with areas in arouras TM 30523probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D.
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An ostracon from Karanis in the Fayum, dating to the 3rd century AD, listing eight numbered entries of land with their areas in arouras. The first concerns public land and the third land classed as unproductive.
In English machine translation
Of public land: 44 1/2 arouras; (no.) 2: 46 1/2 arouras;
(no.) 3, from unproductive land: 52 arouras; (no.) 4: 53 arouras;
(no.) 5: 49 1/2 arouras; (no.) 6: 31;
(no.) 7: 3; (no.) 8: 3 1/2 1/4.
The numerals 2 to 8 may number successive parcels or entries rather than years. Land 'from the unproductive' (ex aporou) was land unable to yield revenue, often assigned compulsorily to cultivators.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.3.1033
δημοσίας ἄρουραι μδ 𐅵, β ἄρουραι μϛ 𐅵, γ ἐξ ἀπόρου ἄρουραι νβ, δ ἄρουραι νγ, ε ἄρουραι μθ 𐅵, ϛ λα, ζ γ, η γ 𐅵 δ.