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Cession of 10 arouras of catoecic land to a cavalryman TM 47436From OxyrhynchusI BCE or I CE
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Fragment of a contract of cession from Oxyrhynchus in which Serapion son of Dionysios, a Macedonian, transfers 10 arouras of catoecic (settler) land in the upper toparchy to Dionysios son of Dionysios, a Thracian cavalryman. The transfer follows a memorandum Serapion submitted to Perdikkas, the official in charge of allotment registrations.
In English machine translation
[...]
[...] Pharmouthi [...] in the city of Oxyrhynchus of the Thebaid. Serapion son of Dionysios, Macedonian, acknowledges
[to Dionysios son of Dio]nysios, Thracian, of the adult cavalrymen (?)
[...] in the street, that he has ceded to him, in accordance with
[the arrangements] made through the officials of the cavalry office, on the basis of the
[memorandum which] Serapion [submitted] to Perdikkas,
[the official in charge of] the registrations of allotments, the ten arouras of catoecic land
belonging to him [near] [...] of the upper toparchy, from the
[...] allotment,
[whose neighbours are: to the] south a field, to the north [...] of the allotment, [to the east] the side strip of the allotment, to the west
[...], so that they may belong to Dionysios and his descendants
[with all the other] privileges and benefits, with full ownership
[for all ti]me [...]
[...]
A parachoresis was the formal cession of catoecic land, which could not be sold outright but was transferred and re-registered through the cavalry office. 'Macedonian' and 'Thracian' here are status designations of settler families rather than actual origins.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract for a parachoresis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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[… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] […] Φαρμοῦθι … ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆς Θηβαίδος. ὁμολογεῖ Σεραπίων Διονυσίου Μακεδὼν Διονυσίῳ Διονυσίου Θρᾳκὶ τῶν ἐπάνδρων ἱππέων […]ἐν ἀγυιᾷ παρακεχωρηκέναι αὐτῷ ἀκολούθως τοῖς ᾠκονομημένοις διὰ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ ἱππικοῦ ἀφʼ οὗ ἐπέδωκεν ὑπομνήματος ὁ…