An account of a 100-aroura land holding of Daipates at Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum), recording the crops sown (wheat, barley, arakos), seed issued to cultivators, payments in kind and money, deductions for unflooded land, sales of green crops and the dike tax. It dates from the Ptolemaic period, with regnal years 2 to 9 mentioned.
In English machine translation
Of Daipates […] […] 1/2 1/4 1/16 (arouras), of which sown land 100
Of which Achoapis records as sown: wheat 55 1/2 1/8 1/16, barley 4, arakos 38, total 97 1/2 1/8 1/16
Unflooded land 2 1/4 1/16, total 100
Onnophris son of Semtheus, Thothortaios son of Harmiysis, Paches son of Thothortaios,
Phapsostis son of Semtheus 300, … 3,
and the seed given to Papsostis son of Semtheus: wheat 72 (artabas),
arakos 38 1/3, equivalent to wheat 23, total 95, total 395
Phamenoth …, … barley 53 1/3, seed wheat 50, wheat 54, total wheat 104, barley 53 1/3
Pharmouthi 10, wheat 40; 29, wheat 70, seed wheat 10, total wheat 120
Epeiph 23, green crops wheat 20; 25, green crops wheat 22 1/2, total 42 1/2
Total wheat 266 1/2, barley 53 1/3, equivalent to wheat 32, total 298 1/2
And from green crops there has been paid: year 2, Tybi, 5; year 4, Mecheir, 7 (drachmas) 3 obols, total 12 (drachmas) 3 obols, exchange 1 (drachma) 2 obols
total 13 (drachmas) 5 obols
equivalent to wheat 13 1/2 1/3
And deduction for unflooded land: 2 1/4 1/16 at 3 1/7, total 19 1/3 ⟦7 1/3⟧. Remainder 75 ⟦87⟧ 2/3. Of which
paid year 4, Hathyr, for the price of green crops 60, equivalent in bronze 66 (drachmas) 1 1/2 obols, equivalent to wheat 66 1/4. Remainder 9 1/3 1/12
[…] … 8, 68 (drachmas) 2 obols …
Administration of green crops: arakos 44, of which … 2, remainder 42; of which sale:
26 at 3, 78; 7 1/2 at 2 (drachmas) 3 obols, 18 (drachmas) 4 1/2 obols; 2 1/2 at 2, 5 drachmas, total 36 (arouras?), 101 (drachmas) 4 1/2 obols; of which
paid year 2, Tybi, 5, Mecheir, 7 (drachmas) 3 obols, total 12 (drachmas) 3 obols, and there has been measured
Epeiph, wheat 42 1/2 … of cleaning …[…]
to the royal (granary?) … 42 (drachmas) 3 obols, total 55, remainder 46 (drachmas) 4 1/2 obols
Dike tax on 100 arouras, of which unflooded 2, remainder 98, 24 (drachmas) 3 obols; of which in silver 12 (drachmas) 1 1/2 obols, [in bronze] […] [of which]
… 12 … […]
… Epeiph, in bronze …8, total … […] year 9, 2 1/2 obols. Remainder 1/2 obol
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch), here converted to wheat equivalents. Many figures are damaged and the units (arouras, artabas, drachmas) are mostly implied rather than written.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tenure de Daipatès). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.