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Account of land and payments listing landholders TM 31688MemphisIII

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Fragmentary account or land-tax register listing individuals, plots of private and settler land measured in arouras, and small money sums in drachmas, obols and chalkoi. It dates to the 3rd century AD and is attributed to Memphis.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] […] […] Thaesion […] […] son of Soterichos, 5 obols, 2 chalkoi […] son of Apion, son of Phibichis […] from 15 arouras, 7 arouras […] […] son of Apion, son of Phibichis, katoikos (?) […] gr(?) 4, 2 obols, 3 […] Private land: 1 (?) Ptol(emaios?) son of Apol(lonios?), from 10 arouras, 2 arouras gr(?) 2 drachmas, 2 obols […] [column 2] […] Taes, arouras […] Pompeia […] Private land […] gr(?) 3, 2 obols […] 1 aroura […] gr(?) 1, 2 obols […] Ptol(emaios?) son of Taarmesis […] […]

The recurring abbreviation 'gr' is unexplained in the edition and may refer to a tax or charge; many names are abbreviated and their expansions 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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p.leipz.17r

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

[r,1] [… ? lines lost …] […] Θαήσιον κλα…ος […] Σωτηρίχου πεντώβολον χαλκοῦς 2 […]…ς Ἀπίωνος Φιβιχιο […]…ιου ἀπὸ ἀρουρῶν ιε ἀρούρας ζ … […] Ἀπίωνος Φιβίχιος κατοικ […]γρ δ διώβολον γ … ἰδιοτικῆς α Πτολ Ἀπολ ἀπὸ ἀρουρῶν ι ἀρούρας β γρ δραχμὰς β διώβολον [… ? lines lost …] [r,2] [……