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Land register of cleruchic and royal land with crops and cultivators TM 644502Herakleopolites2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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A land register from the Herakleopolite nome, second half of the 2nd century BC, listing cleruchic plots by holder with their cultivators, the crops sown (wheat, arakos, olyra, lentils) in arouras, and totals for cleruchic and royal land, including unproductive and dry land.

In English machine translation

[column i] […] of Nikomachos, 40 (arouras); cultivator Petosiris: wheat 26, arakos 2, olyra 12, total 40. Of Nikodemos son of Aristokrates, formerly of Di…zap…os, 45; cultivators Horos and his partners: 27, lentils (?) 3, fodder arakos 15, total 45. Of Herakleides son of Sophanes, 38; cultivator O[…]…; sown: wheat 23, fodder arakos 14, total 37. Of the village scribe's kleros, 10 dry land. […] in year 35 handed over to the lord […] […] of the First Friends, 28; cultivator […] sown: wheat 30, (of which) worm-eaten … 8, total 38. [Total of cleruchic land:] 204 1/2. [Royal land,] the remainder: … total 238 1/2, [of which] non-productive (hypologos): […] year 30 … 5, 6, 225, 233 … […]iskos, cavalryman, 302, (of which) of the settlement 2, remaining 300; cultivators Dionysios and his partners: [sown] wheat 150, (of which) worm-eaten 50, lentils 30, olyra 20, arakos 50, total 250, dry land 50. Of Sophokles and Areios, 214, (of which) cleruchic land of the king's son 5; cultivator Horos son of Petoys: wheat 3, arakos 2, total 5. [column ii] …[…] …[…] of which […] …[…] Total [of cleruchic land] […] Royal [land, the remainder:] […] of which […] [… 2 lines lost …] …[…] and under the supervision […] [to be given to the agents of] Aristonikos […] [for the protection] for the sake of […] of sowable land [the remainder:] […]

Figures are in arouras; arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch) and olyra a kind of emmer. Hypologos denotes land written off as unproductive, and cleruchic land was held by military settlers.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Landregister). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[column i] […] τοῦ Νικομάχου μ γεωργὸς Πετοσῖρις πυρῶι κϛ ἀράκωι β ὀλύραι ιβ γίνονται μ Νικοδήμου τοῦ Ἀριστοκράτου ὃ ἦν Δι…ζαπ…ος με γεωργοὶ Ὧρος καὶ οἱ μέτοχοι κζ ἀφάκηι γχορταράκωι ιε γίνονται με Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Σωφάνου λη γεωργρὸς Ω[…]… σπόρος πυρῶι κγ χορταράκωι ιδ γίνονται λζ…