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χιος κοίτ […] Ζμένδη ὁμοίως […] οὗ ἀρχὴ ἀπὸ δια[…] χέρσου καθηκόντων προσοδικῶν λωτος Νεχθερῶτος τος Χομόιτος καὶ […] ἐρικ […] καὶ προσοδικοῖς ἐδάφεσι σα[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31697
Fragment concerning dry land and revenue land TM 31697MemphisIII
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A small fragment of a land document from Memphis, dated to the 3rd century AD, mentioning dry (uncultivated) land, revenue land and several individuals including a son of Nechtheros and a son of Chomois.
In English machine translation
[…]chios lies (?) […]
to Zmendes likewise […]
of which the beginning is from […]
of dry land, of the due revenue (land) […]
[…]lotos son of Nechtheros
[…]tos son of Chomois and […]
[…]
and on revenue land plots […]
[… ? lines lost …]
Revenue land (prosodos ge) was state land leased to cultivators for rent; 'dry land' (chersos) means land unreached by the flood and so uncultivable that year. The genre is a guess from the land-related vocabulary.
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.