An account drawn up by village officials of Haryotes, including the komarch and village scribe, for the land holding of Antiphanes, a cavalry commander (ilarch), in the Arsinoite nome. It records the crops sown (wheat, arakos, lentils, flax), deliveries of grain, money payments for green crops, the dike tax, and remaining balances over several regnal years.
In English machine translation
[1]
Niseus and Terton son of Petechons […], komarch of Haryotes, and village scribe […] son of Horos.
53 1/2 1/8 1/16
(Holding) of Antiphanes, ilarch: 14[…] arouras, of which sown land [145 1/2 1/8 1/16],
of which Achoapis reports to have been sown: wheat [74 1/2 1/16, arakos] 43 1/2 1/4, lentils 15, flax 12 1/4 1/8, total 145 1/2 1/8 1/16.
Petous son of Haryotes, Horos son of Petous, Tothoe[…], Thothortaios son of Phathres, Haryotes son of Petous, 800(?)
and the amounts given […] 112, arakos 75, which (equal) wheat 45,
total […]7, of which […]
Phamenoth […]
Pharmouthi 9, wheat 286 1/2, 10, wheat […] seed wheat 100, total […]12 1/2 1/3,
seed wheat 6, total wheat […]
Pauni 22, seed arakos 32 […]
Epeiph 11, flax-land(?) wheat 3 1/2, 12, flax-land(?) wheat 1 1/2 1/4 […]
Mesore 15, from flax-bearing land wheat 1 1/2, from flax-bearing land wheat 1, total [2 1/2] […]
Total wheat 738 1/4, arakos 32, which (equal) wheat 19 1/6, total 757 1/3 1/12.
And from green crops there has been paid: year 2, Tybi, 13 drachmas 2 obols;
year 3, Mecheir, 30; Epeiph, 33 drachmas 2 obols […], total 76 drachmas 4 obols, exchange fee ⟦5 drachmas 5 obols⟧ 8 drachmas 2 obols,
total 84 drachmas 4 obols, 8 drachmas 1 1/2 obols […] 1 1/2 obols […] total 85(?) 1/4.
Remainder 72 1/2 1/4(?).
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Dike tax […] 3 1/2 1/4 […]
Green crops(?) 3 […] 2 1/2 1/4 […] 8 1/2
Remainder: arakos 34 1/2 1/4 1/8, flax 2 1/2 1/4 1/8. ⟦Of which sale⟧
for money […]
for grain […] 1/2 1/4 1/8 […]
[…] 2 1/4 1/8 at wheat […]
total in money 11[…] 1/2 […] [of which there has been paid]
year 2, Tybi, 13 drachmas 2 obols, year 3, Mecheir […]
and grain has been measured out […]
Epeiph, wheat 1/2 1/4 […]
remainder in money 20[…]
[…]
Epeiph 2, total […]
Dike tax on 1[5] arouras […] [of which]
there has been paid: Pachons […]
Epeiph, 4 […]
remainder in bronze 5 1/2 obols, exchange fee […]
year 4, Phamenoth, in bronze 11 obols […]
[margin]
Cleaning: Pharmouthi 4, wheat 7 1/2, 20, wheat 1 1/2 1/3.
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a kind of vetch or chickling) with no exact English equivalent. The chomatikon was a tax for the upkeep of dikes; many figures are damaged and some restorations 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 Tenure de l’ilarque Antiphanès). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.