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Land register of cleruchic and royal land with crops sown TM 644555Herakleopolites2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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Fragment of a Ptolemaic land register from the Herakleopolite nome, listing plots of cleruchic, royal and set-apart land with their holders, cultivators and the crops sown (wheat, lentils, barley, arakos, flax). It dates to the second half of the 2nd century BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] The remaining sown land: 47 [...] 192 1/2 1/3 1/12 (arouras), of which (land under) the supervisor's (?) cleruchy of the [...] 10, cultivators Hareus son of Petoys and his partners: in wheat 16 [...] 65 1/3, in lentils 13 53 1/12, in arakos 8 [32 1/2 1/6] and of the [...] sown with grain, (land of) the supervisor's (?) cleruchy of Polykrates 10 40 1/2 1/3, cultivator [...] (Cleruchy) of Alkimos, cavalryman, 175, of which (belonging to) the settlement 5, there remain 170, cultivator Pnephoros and his partners [...] 70, in arakos 50, total 160, dry land 10, total 170 [...] royal (land) 160 1/2, of which from the cleruchic (land) of the king's son, dry land (?) and of the (land) set apart from the same revenue: to Apollonios son of Asklepiades 8 1/2, cultivator Horos [...] in wheat [6], in barley 1, in arakos 1 1/2, total 8 1/2 to [...]ios son of Alexandros 8, cultivator [...] to Ptolemaios son of Simadas 4, cultivator Horos son of Horos, in wheat 2 1/2, in arakos [1 1/2, total 4] Total of the (land) set apart 20 [1/2] and of the (land) set apart from the same revenue: [...]stos son of Apollonios 5 1/2 1/3 [...] and of those around the court: [...] of the slaves within, formerly of Magas, 50 16, cultivator Paibis [...] [...] in flax [...] in arakos [...] [...] [verso] village [...]

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch) with no exact English equivalent. The abbreviation read as 'supervisor's cleruchy' (ephod-) is uncertain in meaning.

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.

p.koeln.land.14

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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