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Register of land and rents owed by villagers in the Upper toparchy TM 31823OxyrhynchosIII

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Fragment of a register of land and rents from Oxyrhynchos, 3rd century AD, listing tenants in the Upper toparchy and the rents they owe for the current year 1. Entries include Patermouthis, a leper and village official, and Patas son of Kollouthos, with land in lentils and fodder and some unflooded, unsown land.

In English machine translation

Of villagers likewise, of the Upper toparchy […] Patermouthis, leper, komarch […] of the current year 1 owes for rents […] around the village of Senyris, from the holding of Apollonios […] 6 1/2 choinikes of wheat, at the rate of 5 artabas of wheat and 40 drachmas 4 arouras […] They previously paid in rents, wheat in public deposit […] of non-existent (properties) likewise and […] formerly of Pausanias alias Philosarapis […] from the cavalry holding of Dionysios […] At Enteios (?). Patas son of Kollouthos […] owes for rents and dues of the current year 1 […] formerly of Pausanias alias Philosarapis from the […] sheet 6, from 8 1/2 arouras in lentils and fodder […] from 2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/64 arouras, lentils, fodder arouras […] total in lentils and fodder 3 1/4 arouras, of unflooded and unsown land […] according to the agreement made in the past year, wheat […] […]

Ekphoria are rents in kind for leased land; the 'komarch' was a village headman. The reading of the place name 'Enteios' and several fractions 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 Fragment of Register of Land and Rents). 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.oxy.63.4356

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

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