Fragment of a Ptolemaic land register from the Herakleopolite nome, listing cleruchic plots held by soldiers with their cultivators and crops, then the remaining royal land with its rent rates and deductions for unproductive land in various regnal years. It dates to the second half of the 2nd century BC.
In English machine translation
[column i]
[…] […] […]
[…] of Ptolemaios, mounted guard (ephodos), 10 (arouras); cultivator: the cleruch; sown: wheat 10
[…] of Ktesippos, 15 1/2; cultivator: Haryotes; wheat 13, arakos 2 1/2; total 15 1/2
[…] son of Thotorches, guard (phylakites), 5; cultivator: the cleruch; sown: arakos 5
[and of the land …] in the 35th year: Aphoys son of Semtheus […]
[…] total of cleruchic land 152
[royal land], the remainder: 165 3/4, of which unproductive, outside the lease
[…] 2 1/2,
there remain of grain-bearing land 163 1/4 (arouras), 761 1/4 (artabas)
of which 133 1/8 arouras at 5 (artabas each), 666 5/8
[another 10] at 4 1/4, 42 1/2; another 20 1/8 at […]; total 163 1/4, 761 1/4
[of which] unproductive, scraped-bare land of year 30, 5, 25; under the brother, year 30, 5, 25;
[…] 6 1/2, 32 1/2; year 27, 11 1/2, 57 1/2; total 28, 140 artabas
[…] year 30, 4 1/2, 22 1/2; total 14 1/2, 72 1/2; canals, year 32, 22 1/2, 112 1/2;
[…] year […], 12, 52 1/2; total 43 1/2, 210; total unproductive 86, 422 1/2
[…] for measuring out through Dionysodoros
[column ii]
[… 1 line lost …]
of which unproductive under Euergetes […] [year 15 (?), 1/8]
and under the brother, year 25, 66 1/2 1/8 […] 1/2 […]
total unproductive 81 1/2 1/8 […]
and […] is entered […]
of Ammonios, of those through Eum[…] […]
of Epikrates 119 1/4 1/8, of which cleruchic land of the […]
of the children of the king and of the queens […]
to Herakleides son of Dionysodoros 10 […]
[…]lytos among those through Exak[…] 10; cultivator […]
of Herakleides son of Asklepiades, mounted guard, 14
cultivator: Petosiris; sown: wheat 10, arakos 4; total 14
total of cleruchic land 34
royal land, the remainder: 85 1/4 1/8, of which hamlet (?) 5, dry untaxed land 10 1/4 1/8
there remain under lease, grain-bearing land 70 at 4 1/4, 297 1/2
of which unproductive under the brother of the king
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch or chickling); 'Euergetes' and 'the brother' refer to Ptolemaic kings. Figures are arouras followed by rent in artabas.
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.