List of Ptolemaic Cleruchs
List of cleruchs, organized according to villages and to taxes they have to pay; most of them are identified by their ethnic
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List of cleruchs by village and tax liability TM 7884Unknown place, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egyptca. 186/185 B.C.
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A list of Ptolemaic military settlers (cleruchs), grouped by village and by the tax they owed, the grain-tax or the police-tax, with each man identified by father's name and ethnic label (Persian, Macedonian, Jew, Thracian and others). It comes from the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome (Fayum), around 186/185 BC.
In English machine translation
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[…]
for grain-tax (?)
[…] son of Kteson, Persian
[…] son of […]ios, Cyrenean
[…] total 2
[…] son of […]doros, Macedonian, Nikanor
[…] grain-tax, son of Archedemos, total 4
[…] son of Rhodippos, Persian
[…] son of Soterichos, total 2
[…] for the police-tax
[…] son of Demetrios, Persian
[…] of Berenike's Anchorage, for the police-tax
[…] son of […]menos, Jew
[…] Alexandrian, total 3
[…]
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Ophelion son of Parmenion […]
Archedemos son of Mnasistratos […]
Nikanor son of Nikanor, Macedonian
Xenon son of Thallos, Persian
Ammonios son of Philon, Byzantine
[…] Demosthenes son of Demosthenes
Pauni 5, Dikaios son of Taurinos, Persian ⟦clean, by the measure⟧
of Sebennytos, total 8
clean, grain-tax: Demetrios son of Philippos, Lokrian
grain-tax: ⟦Herakleides son of Zenobios, Cyrenean⟧
Dorotheos son of Kallikrates […]
Apollonios son of Ptolemaios […]
[…] of Bakchias, for the police-tax, total […]
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[…]as
[…] Macedonian
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[…] son of Arkadion, Arcadian
[…] son of […]mon, Thracian, grain-tax, total 15
[…] for the police-tax […]
[…] son of […]smenios, Persian
[…] Libyan
[…] Macedonian, total 3
[…] Macedonian
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of year 20
around Neilopolis, grain-tax
salaried soldier: ⟦Laoites son of Demetrios, Persian⟧
clean, native soldier: Herakleides son of Apollonios
around Philoteris, for the police-tax
Theodoros son of Theodoros, infantry officer
of year 21: Demetrios son of Demetrios, Macedonian
Herakleides son of Andragathos, Persian
20, Mesore: Theogenes son of Euelthon, Jew
[…] 23, from which 3, remainder 20 […]
Dinnys son of Koiton, for the police-tax, wheat 11 artabas
Asklepiades son of Nikokles, Persian
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for the police-tax […]
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Ethnics such as 'Persian' were often status labels rather than actual origin by this period. 'Clean' (katharon) probably refers to grain cleaned for delivery, and the abbreviations for grain-tax and police-tax are expansions.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Ptolemaic Cleruchs). 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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