One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31438

Fragmentary declaration of private land holdings TM 31438unbekanntIII - IV

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Fragment of a land declaration in which someone registers that they possess seven (units of land?), listing plots of private land, sown areas and their sizes in arouras. Several persons, including Saronios, Damostratos and Appianos, are named. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

… […] […] […] and of Saronios […] […] to Damostratos […] […] and of Appianos, Theo[…] […] I register that I possess seven […] […] on each […] […] Senekeleu(?) […] […] arouras 3, another […] […] 16, 32, one half, arouras 4 8 […] […] of private (land), sown, from […] […] of common private (land), sown, […] […] of […] (land), sown, arouras […] […] Kordex(?) […] […] one half, arouras 2, another […] […] arouras 4, one half, arouras […] […] one half, arouras 3 1/2 […] 268 […] […] sown, from arouras 4 4 […] […] of the kleros of […]ides, private (land), from […] […] and around the Syrians' village(?) […] […] sown, from 1 aroura […]

The aroura is the standard Egyptian land measure (about 0.68 acre). 'Peri Syron' may refer to land near a place called 'of the Syrians'; readings of names and numbers are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Public accounts, tax - lists, land - registers etc.). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III - IV

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