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Land register of cleruchic holdings with crops and cultivators TM 644551Herakleopolites2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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Fragment of a Ptolemaic land register from the Herakleopolite nome listing plots (gardens, dovecotes, vineyards, cleruchic holdings) with their areas in arouras, the holders, the farmers who worked them, and the crops sown (wheat, olyra, arakos).

In English machine translation

[column i] […] 1 (?) […] 5 (?) [… 3 lines lost …] […] 9 1/2 1/8 […] 9 1/2 1/8 […] [… 3 lines lost …] […] 257 1/12 (?) … [… ? lines lost …] [column ii] Garden 1 1, dovecote 1/2 1/2, vineyard harvested 2 … 1/3, total 5 1/12 1/3 (?) Uncultivated garden, grain-sown 5 5, … 4 1/2 1/4, 4 1/2 1/4, total 9 1/2 1/4, [9] 1/2 1/4, total 14 1/2 1/4 1/22 1/12 (?) […] … settlement and … [Dove]cote 1/2 1/2, garden 1 1, … 4 1/2 1/4 … 1/12 1/12 vineyard harvested 2 5 1/3, total 14 1/2 1/4 1/22 1/12 (?) … after … of the cleruchic (land?) of Phalous 5 1/23 1/2 1/3 (?) farmer … wheat 2 1/2 1/11 1/4, arakos 2 1/2 1/12 1/6, total 5 1/23 1/2 1/3 (?) (Holding) of Amyntas 110, of which cleruchic […] son of the king, by … to Apollonios son of Apollonios 15 farmer the cleruch: wheat 4, olyra 4, arakos 4, total 12 and garden around […] 3, farmer the cleruch: wheat 1, … 2, total 3 (Holding) of Dionysios son of Dionysios, of the katoikic cavalrymen under Hexak(…) 15 farmer Haryotes son of Onnophris: wheat 10, olyra 2 1/2, arakos 2 1/2, total 15 (Holding) of […]ios son of Herakleides, of the ephodos 12, farmer the cleruch: wheat 2, arakos 3, total 5; inundated 7 … (holding) of Herakon son of Herakleides 7 1/2 1/4 1/16, farmer Haryotes son of Onnophris sown: wheat 5, arakos 2 1/2 1/4 1/16, total 7 1/2 1/4 1/16 (Holding) of Antibios, formerly of Dio[…] 5, farmer Apollonios: wheat 3, arakos 2, total 5 […] [farmer] Pais son of Petosiris: wheat 32 … [… ? lines lost …]

Figures are areas in arouras with fractions; several readings of numerals are uncertain. Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (vetch) and olyra an emmer-type grain; the 'ephodos' were a category of Ptolemaic 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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