A Ptolemaic land register from the Herakleopolite nome listing plots, mostly of 6 3/4 arouras held by guards (phylakitai), with their cultivators and the area sown in wheat, barley, flax, arakos and hay, or left unsown. It also records land assigned to temples, including for the lamp supply of a temple at Herakleopolis.
In English machine translation
[column i]
[…] … total 41 1/4
[…] …
[…] … 35 1/2 …
[…] … […] in flax 10 1/2 …
[…] … cultivator: himself, in arakos […], in barley […]
[… 5 lines lost …]
[…] in Alyi
[…] 20
[…] unsown
[…] …
[…] … 4, total 9 1/2 1/4
[…] 9 1/2 1/4
[…] 9 1/2 1/4
[…] 8, total 9 1/2 1/4
[…] in wheat 5 1/2, in arakos 4 1/4, total 9 1/2 1/4
[…] 9 1/2 1/4
[…] in wheat 5 1/2, in arakos 4 1/4, total 9 1/2 1/4
[…] … […]
[…] in arakos …, in flax 4, total 9 1/2 1/4
[…] cultivator: himself, in wheat 5
[column ii]
[…] … […]
in flax 1 […], in hay 1 […] … […]
and of the land assigned by the […]
men to the […] in […]
of the god Esephis […]
of the guards: Paous son of So…[…]
(holders of 7 arouras) … of those in year 30 under […] … […]
the king: Sanos son of Horos 6 1/2 1/4
cultivator Pythodoros, in wheat 4, in arakos 2 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Anoportaios son of Amenneus 6 1/2 1/4
cultivator: himself, in wheat 4 1/2, in arakos 2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Semtheus son of Petoys 6 1/2 1/4
cultivator: himself, in wheat 4, in arakos 2 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Pnephoros son of Pais 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator: himself, in flax 1 1/2 1/4,
in arakos 5, total 6 1/2 1/4
Paous son of S…n…sis, who has taken Sonychis as partner, 6 1/2 1/4
cultivators: themselves, in wheat 1 1/2 1/4, unsown 5, total 6 1/2 1/4
Kosanouphis son of Pasis 6 1/2 1/4
cultivator: himself, in wheat 4, in arakos 2 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Hermaios son of Horos 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator Philon, in wheat 6 1/2 1/4
Petobastis son of Panechotes 6 1/2 1/4
cultivator: himself, in wheat 4, in arakos 2 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Horos son of Harsentheus 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator: himself, in wheat 3, in barley 1, in arakos 2 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Haronnophris son of Semtheus 6 1/2 1/4
cultivator: himself, in wheat 6, in flax 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Total 62 1/2; sown: in wheat 38, in barley 1,
in flax 2 1/2, in arakos 21, total 62 1/2; unsown 5; total 67 1/2
and of the land assigned by the […]
men for the lamp-oil supply of the
temple in Herakleopolis […]
and of those in the royal […]
[…] Anoportaios […]
cultivator: himself, dry land 5 … […]
Dionysios son of Ar…[…]
cultivator: himself, in wheat 5 […]
Figures are in arouras; arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch). 'Cultivator: himself' means the holder farmed the plot personally.
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.