Fragment of an official list from the Oxyrhynchite nome, AD 4th century, recording areas of land in arouras and the dues in artabas on public land, arranged by administrative district (pagus) and village. The 8th, 9th and 10th pagi and villages such as Teis, Paomis, Ision and Sesphtha are named.
In English machine translation
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8th pagus: 112 1/2 1/8 arouras, [public, artabas] […]
of which:
Teis: 4[…] 1/4 1/16 arouras, [public, artabas] […]
Paomis: 64 1/4 1/16 arouras, [public, artabas] […]
Palosis: [arouras] […]
Kesmouchis: [arouras] […]
9th pagus […]
of which:
Lower Ision […]
Ibion of Ammonios
Ision of Tryphon
Psobthis
[…]
Takona […]
10th pagus
Sesphtha
[…]
[…]
[…]
Tholthis
[…]
The pagus was the rural district into which Egyptian nomes were divided from about AD 307/310. The figures concern public (state) land worked by state farmers, with rents in artabas of grain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Pachtzinsquoten - Liste von Staatsbauern nach Pagi und Dörfern). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.