Land register recording a dispute over royal land claimed as cavalry allotments TM 644507Herakleopolites ?2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

Fragment of a land register or survey report from the Herakleopolite nome (?) in the second half of the 2nd century BC. It records a dispute in which land registered to royal farmers was claimed by its holders as cavalry allotments, so that they blocked the toparchs from transporting the harvest to the royal threshing floors.

In English machine translation

Royal farmers (basilikoi georgoi) cultivated crown land, while cavalry allotments (hippikoi kleroi) were plots granted to military settlers; the conflict turns on which status the land had. Columns i and iii are too damaged for continuous translation.

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.