An agricultural account of the landholding of a hipparch (cavalry officer) in the Arsinoite nome, recording areas sown with wheat, arakos and flax, the cultivators, seed advanced, dated grain deliveries and losses. It was found at Ghoran in the Fayum, Ptolemaic period.
In English machine translation
[…] of the hipparch, 341 3/4 1/8 (arouras), of which sown 329 1/2 1/8 1/16;
of which Achoapis reports to have been sown: wheat 193 3/4 (arouras), arakos 91 1/8,
flax 1/2, total 285 1/4 1/8; unflooded 44 1/4 1/16; total 329 1/2 1/8 1/16.
Pasis son of Haryotes, Harmiysis son of Haryotes, Tsechoupis son of Horos, Horos son of Pasis,
Thotommous son of Pharemphis, Pais son of Thotes, Semtheus son of Semtheus, Ptolemaios
son of Ph[…]phis, Tmamos son of Aspheus, Paches son of Thothortaios, 1800; levy (?) 5 1/3 1/8;
and the seed given to Pasis son of Haryotes: wheat 230 (artabas), arakos 80 1/3,
which (equal) wheat 50, total 280; for the worm-eaten (land) wheat 20, total 300; total 2100.
[…] 15 […] 9
Phamenoth 28, wheat 337; 30, seed wheat 272 1/2;
Pharmouthi 7, wheat 213; 10, wheat 348 1/4; 20, seed wheat 140; 29, wheat 91 1/2;
30, wheat 254 1/2; total 1047 1/4.
Pachon 10, seed wheat 70; wheat 22 1/4 […] 1/4 1/8
Total wheat 1772 […]
And from fodder crops there has fallen: year 2, Choiak, 85; Tybi, 35, total 120;
year 3, Epeiph, 30; Thoth, 40, total 70; total 190; exchange […] 4 1/2 obols, total […]
for the […] 75 1/2 obol, total […]34, 4 obols
which (equal) wheat 134 2/3, total 19[…]
unflooded […] 3 1/6 1/8, of which 24[…] 2/3 214 […]
remainder […] 2121 1/3 […]
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1/4 1/16 28
[…]
[…] administration (dioikesis): arakos 91 1/8, flax 1/2; of which
green crops 3 1/5 1/2 1/4 1/8. Remainder: flax 1/2, arakos 85 1/4; of which sale
of arakos 50 at 4, 200; 10 at 3, 30; total 60 artabas, 230 drachmas;
[…] for grain, 5 at 6 1/2 wheat, 32 1/2; 20 1/4 at 4 1/2, 91 1/8, total
flax 1/2 at 10 wheat, 5; total […] artabas. Of which there has fallen: year 2, Choiak, 85;
Tybi, [35, total 120];
year 3, Epeiph, 30; Thoth, 40, total 70; total 190;
and there has been measured in Pachon 32 1/2 wheat […]
he completes the lease.
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch or chickling). The figures in several lines are damaged and the interpretation of units (arouras vs. artabas) is partly inferred.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tenure d’un hipparque). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.