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Fragmentary declaration of unflooded land addressed to the strategos, the royal scribe Serenus and the village scribe of Karanis by a veteran, son of Marinus. He registers his catoecic and assigned land near Karanis that was not reached by the Nile flood in the current year. Written at Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, AD 165-171.
Landholders declared unflooded (abrochos) land so that it could be exempted from taxes for the year. Epibole refers to land compulsorily assigned to a cultivator.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Deklaration nicht überfluteten Landes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] […] στρατηγῷ καὶ Σερήνῳ βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ Ἀρσινοίτου Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος καὶ […] κωμογραμματεῖ Καρανίδος παρὰ […] Μαρίνου ουετρανοῦ […] καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει κατὰ τὰ κελευσθέντα ἀπογράφομαι τὰς ὑπαρχούσας μοι περὶ κώμην Καρανίδα κλήρου κατοικικοῦ ἀρούρας […] καὶ ἐπιβολῆς γίνεται …
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