A Ptolemaic land register from the Herakleopolite nome listing plots of military settlers (Macedonians, 10-aroura river guards, 7-aroura soldiers), their cultivators, and the crops sown (wheat, olyra, barley, arakos, hay). It notes 7-aroura men who left with the king's brother for Asia and others who did not campaign, plus temple land.
In English machine translation
[column i]
[…] of the […]
[…] scattered (?) […]
[…]
[…] of the […]
cultivator Antigonos, wheat 5, hay 5, total 10
[…] of Semtheus 10, 31 1/2 (?)
cultivator […], olyra 5, hay 5 […]
[…] of Nephorphoreus 2 […] cultivator himself, olyra 2 […]
[…] 22 […] 69 1/2 (?)
[and of those (allotted)] through Phlaboïs:
[…] 2 […] 2 1/6 (?)
[…] hay 3 1/2 […]
[…] 7, 20 1/2
[…] total 14, 48 1/6 (?)
[… 5 lines lost …]
[…] of the Macedonians […]
[…] which Ptolemaios has taken over
[…] 15, total 30
[…] 7, 8
[…] 5 1/2, 8
[…] 5 1/2, 8
[…] 6 1/4, cultivator himself, wheat 6 1/4
[…] cultivator himself, wheat 3 1/4, arakos 3, total 6 1/4
[… cultivator] Diodoros, barley 6 1/4
[column ii]
[…] of Pholemis […]
cultivator Horos son of Horos, sown […]
[…] son of S[…]
cultivator himself, olyra 3 1/8 1/16 […]
Teos son of Paseis […]
cultivator himself, sown with olyra 3 1/8 1/16 […]
Total […]
barley 11 1/4 1/8, olyra 9 1/4 […]
Of the 10-aroura river guards: Psenatymis son of P[…]
cultivator himself, wheat 4, arakos 2 1/2, olyra 1/2 […]
Of the 7-aroura men who are reported to have marched off with the king's brother to the regions of Asia:
Har[…]bis son of Stotoetis 6 1/2 1/4 […]
Nichthembes son of Harkametis 6 1/2 1/4 […]
cultivator Dorotheos, arakos […]
Teos son of Teos 6 1/2 1/4
Semtheus son of Horos 6 1/2 1/4
Harbichis son of Nektenibis 6 1/2 1/4
Petosiris son of Onnophris 6 1/2 1/4
cultivators themselves, wheat 3, arakos 3 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Total 4[…] arouras, sown with wheat […], arakos […]
And of those who did not go on campaign:
Phagates son of Petosiris 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator […]
Horos son of Pachrates 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator […]
Teephibis son of Semtheus 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator […]
Horos son of Pokrouris 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator […]
Semtheus son of Embetephnachthis 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator […]
Peteembes son of Keleesis 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator […]
Semtheus son of Pholemis 6 1/2 1/4, cultivator […]
sown with wheat 4, arakos 2 1/2 1/4, total 6 1/2 1/4
Total 47 1/4, sown with wheat 28, arakos 19 1/4
And of the (land) set apart by the […] men for the temple in the village:
[…] wheat 5 […]
[…] cultivator […]
[verso]
scattered (?)
[…]
Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch) and olyra a kind of emmer; 'cultivator himself' means the allotment holder farmed it himself. Some figures in damaged lines are uncertain in reading.
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.