Land - survey list
Cursive, written along the fibres. Two columns. The papyrus breaks at top, foot and on the left. On the right the margin is preserved.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33290
Land survey register of private and public land in Hermopolite villages TM 33290Hermopolite Nome4th c. AD
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 4 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Fragment of a land survey register from the Hermopolite nome, listing landholders by village (Sinarchebis, Sesymbothis) with the areas of private and public land they held, including totals per name. It dates to the first half of the 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[column i]
[...]
[...] ...
[...]nos, with water-installation
[...] ... private land, 13 1/2 arouras
private land, 1 1/8 1/16 aroura
private land, 1 2/3 1/8 1/32 1/64 aroura
[...] ... through
[...]
[column 2]
[...]
Of Sinarchebis:
Of Charidemos, land sown after being dry (?), 26 2/3 1/8 1/32 arouras
Of Sesymbothis:
Of Menelaos, land sown after being dry (?), private, 12 [...] arouras
Total for the name: private land, 337 1/2 1/8 1/16 1/64 arouras
public land, 14 2/3 arouras
... [...] ... 15 2/3 arouras
[...] private land [...] arouras
[...]
The term chersasporos refers to land that had been dry (chersos) but was sown; the exact sense is uncertain. Areas are given in arouras with Egyptian unit fractions.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Land Survey). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.preis.47
p.cair.preis.2ed.47
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