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Land register with cleruchic, royal and unproductive land TM 644521Herakleopolites2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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Two fragments of a Ptolemaic land register from the Herakleopolite nome, dating to the later 2nd century BC. It classifies land as cleruchic, royal, sown and unproductive (canals, scraped, unflooded and salty land), names farmers such as Pnephoros and Hasphys, and mentions land under supervision assigned to the men of Aristonikos for protection.

In English machine translation

[fragment 1] [… ? lines lost …] of which […] and under supervision […] to be given to the men of Aristonikos […] for the sake of the protection of […] The remaining land is sown land: 60 8 […] farmer Pnephoros son of Pesnaos […] to the hay-merchant (?) […] of the unproductive land, of year 36, scraped 6, unflooded […] […] 6 […] of salt land […] [… 1 line lost …] […] 2 through Dio[…] […] from the […] […] of the king Herakleid[…] and of the […] […] of Apollonios 25, farmer the cleruch […] [… ? lines lost …] [fragment 2] […] [… 1 line lost …] of Semtheus son of […] Total of cleruchic land […] The remaining land is royal land: […] of which, of unproductive land […] of canals 12 […] and under supervision […] to be given to the men of Aristonikos […] for the sake of the protection of the […] The remaining land is sown land: […] farmer Hasphys […] […] […] […] 10, farmer […] Alexandr[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Year 36 likely refers to the reign of Ptolemy VIII (135/4 BC). Terms such as 'scraped' (katexysmene) and 'unflooded' (abrochos) are technical categories of land unfit for cultivation.

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

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