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Land register with cultivators and crops, Herakleopolite nome TM 644771Herakleopolites2. Hälfte II v.Chr.

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Fragment of a land register from the Herakleopolite nome listing plots, their cultivators (including cleruchs, Semtheus son of Petosiris and Harpaesis son of Hasphis) and the crops sown, such as wheat, arakos and lentils. Some land is designated as set aside for the revenue of the king's children, and a chief bodyguard and court pages are mentioned.

In English machine translation

[column i] […] 40 1/2 1/8 […] 32 1/4, total 37 150 12 […] cultivator: the cleruch, with arakos 10 40 1/2 1/8 […] […] 5 […] […] of the revenue of the children of the king […] son of Horos and his partners [… 1 line lost …] […] cultivator: Semtheus son of Petosiris, sown with wheat 4, with arakos 4, total 8 […] with arakos 1, total 3 1/2, scraped (land) 1/2, total 4 […] 27 […] under […] cultivator: the cleruch, with wheat 1, with arakos 4 1/2, total 5 1/2 […] chief bodyguard and of the pages of the inner court […] 50 (?), cultivators: […] son of Semtheus and his partners, with wheat 25 […] 4, total 50 [… 1 line lost …] [… ? lines lost …] [column ii] Total of non-productive (land) […] remaining (arouras) of sowable land: […] […] 148 other 5 at 3, 3 16 1/4, other 6 at […] cultivator: Harpaesis son of Hasphis […] with lentils 10 45, with arakos for fodder 11 49 1/2, 20 […] and in the (land) at 3 1/4, remaining […] total 26 84 1/2; total of the sown land: with wheat 10 […] with arakos 2 6 1/2, with arakos for fodder 11 49 1/2, total […] and […] is placed […] to Apollonios of the […] from […] dry land 31 1/4, remaining 12 1/2, cultivator […] of Eudemos […] 130 […], of which [cleruchic land] set apart from [the revenue] of the children of the king [and of the queens] […] [… ? lines lost …]

Arakos is a leguminous fodder crop (a vetch or chickling) with no exact English equivalent. Figures are areas in arouras with fractions; land 'set apart for the revenue of the king's children' was a Ptolemaic category of assigned income.

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

[column i] […] μ 𐅵 γ […]… λβ β γίνονται λζ ρν ιβ […] γεωργὸς ὁ κληροῦχος ἀράκωι ι μ 𐅵 γ […]… […] ε […]ου…ω […] προσόδου τῶν τέκνων τοῦ βασιλέως […]…ς Ὥρου καὶ οἱ μέτοχοι [… 1 line lost …] […] γεωργὸς Σεμθεὺς Πετοσίριος σπόρος πυρῶι δ ἀράκωι δ γίνονται η […]… ἀράκωι α γίνονται γ 𐅵…