Account of royal and private sown land with grain dues TM 42028probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIInd century-IIIrd century A.D.

A short ostracon account listing areas of sown royal land and private land, followed by quantities of grain in artabas, presumably the dues to be collected. It dates to the 2nd-3rd century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.

In English machine translation

Royal land was leased by the state to cultivators and paid higher rents in grain than private land. The fractions are written in Egyptian unit-fraction notation, and the fraction in line 3 (κη) is uncertain in meaning.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of land). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.