One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31682

Land survey listing flooded, unflooded and dry land TM 31682MemphisIII

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Fragment of a land survey or declaration from the Memphis area listing areas of unflooded, Nile-flooded and dry land in arouras, with public dikes. It was registered by Apollonios and Ammonios son of Apollonios, in the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] 10 (?) of the common unflooded land, arouras […] flooded by the Nile, the remaining 70 1/2 arouras […] 16 arouras 83 […] 1 Dry land […] arouras 25, arouras 30 […] 39, village (land?) […] Total of the whole: 58, as far as […] Public dike […] Public dike […] but the […] Registered by Apollonios […] and by Ammonios son of Apollonios […]

Abrochos land was not reached by the Nile flood and was often taxed at a reduced rate; chersos is dry, uncultivable land. Many figures are abbreviated or uncertain.

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.

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

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