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Land register of plots held by guards and river guards TM 644563Herakleopolites2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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Fragment of a Ptolemaic land register from the Herakleopolite nome, listing plots held by guards and ten-aroura river guards with their cultivators and the crops sown (wheat, lentils, hay, arakos). It dates to the second half of the 2nd century BC.

In English machine translation

[column i] [...] [...] [...] [...] 4, with hay 3, total [...] [...] of vineyards [...] [...] [...] 2, with lentils 18, total [...] [...] [...] with beans (?) [...] [...] with wheat [...] [...] with wheat 5 [...] [...] 10, with wheat 58, with lentils 18, total 76 [...] of those through Strouthos, 220 arouras [column ii] Of the guards ⟦and⟧ [...] of Paapis son of Pe[...] farmer Peitholaos [...] Peteembes son of Pem[...] of Ammonios son of Nepher[...] of Hanos son of An[...] of Horos son of Phen[...] sown: with wheat 5, with arakos 5, total [10] total 50 arouras; 162 1/2; with wheat [...] Of the ten-aroura river guards assigned to the [...] of Amenneus son of A[...] of Horos son of Amenn[...], which Machatas has taken over, 10; 32 1/2; farmer [...] Psenobastis son of Inaros [...] and of those through Phlaboïs: of Semtheus son of Petosiris [...] with hay 3 1/4, 16, total 8 1/4 [...] of Petesis son of [...] [...] [...] [...]

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch or chickling) with no exact English equivalent. The 'ten-aroura river guards' were holders of small cleruchic allotments of 10 arouras.

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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