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Account of the land holding of the hipparch Sosillos TM 3234Ghoran (Arsinoites)244 - 243 v.Chr.

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An account of the land holding of Sosillos, a cavalry officer (hipparch), recording the area sown and unflooded, the cultivators, seed supplied, and monthly deliveries of wheat and barley. It comes from Ghoran in the Arsinoite nome, 244-243 BC.

In English machine translation

Of Sosillos, hipparch: 34 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 (arouras), of which sown land 288 (?), of which Achoapis writes that there have been sown with wheat … 3, …[…] total 252 1/2; unflooded 35 1/2; total 288. Aspheus son of Horos, Thothortaios son of Aspheus, Horos' son, Pasis […] Elipon (?) son of Onnophris, Thot[…] and the seed given […] of Horos, of wheat 14 … … of arakos (vetch) …[…] … … … Phamenoth 25, of barley 166 2/3 Pharmouthi 7, of wheat 411 1/2, of barley 27, seed of wheat 100; 26, seed […] Pachon 9, seed of wheat 59, of green wheat 58, total 117, total of wheat 541 1/2 … Epeiph […], of barley 200 of barley 393 2/3, which (equal) of wheat 236 1/6 (?), total 894 2/3, 94 1/2 and there has been paid into the bank of Herakleitos from the green crops […] Pauni, 60, Tybi 30, epagomenal days …[…] which ⟦9, 2 obols⟧ (of wheat) … …[…] … 3 … 30 (?) … … … and of the unflooded land, deducted 35 1/2 at 2 … 91 … total … remainder … 2, 12, total … … […]

Many figures are damaged or uncertain, and the totals do not all reconcile. Unflooded (abrochos) land was land the Nile flood failed to reach, normally deducted from assessments.

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’hipparque Sôsillos). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 244 - 243 v.Chr. · Ghoran (Arsinoites)

Σωσίλλου ἱππάρχου λαδ 𐅵 δ η ιϛ, ὧν σπορίμου σπη, ἀφʼ ὧν γράφει Ἀχοᾶπις ἐσπάρθαι πυρῶν … γ, …[…] γίνονται σνβ 𐅵, ἀβρόχου λε 𐅵 γίνονται σπη. Ἀσφεὺς Ὥρου, Θοθορταῖος Ἀσφέως, Ὥρου υἱὸς, Πᾶσις […]…[…]… Ελιπων Ὀννώφριος, Θοτ……………… καὶ τὰ δεδομένα σπέρματα[…]… Ὥρου πυροῦ ιδ… … ἀράκου …α…