Land register
Land Register
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89158
Land register with names and areas in arouras TM 89158This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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Fragmentary land register on an ostracon from Berenike on the Red Sea coast, dated AD 50-75, listing Egyptian personal names such as Senosiris, Tithoes and Senaroeris with areas in arouras and fractions, and sums in obols. The back notes that the items were handled through a man named Epiktetos.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[column i]
[…] [arouras] […] 7 1/4 1/16 1/300 (?) 1/6 (?)
[…] 4 1/2 obols
[…] Senosiris
[…] 9
[…] of an aroura 1/4 1/16 1/32
[…]
[…]
[column ii]
Tithoes […]
[…] makes […]
Titos (?) […]
Senaroeris […]
[…]
[…]
[verso]
The things (accounted) through Epiktetos
The aroura is an Egyptian land measure of about 0.68 acre; the fractions in the first line are hard to read, so their values are uncertain. The text was found in a Roman rubbish dump.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Land register). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.berenike.2.132
[r] [column i] […] ἄρουραι […]ζ δηιϛ το ϛ […] ὀβολοὶ 4 1/2 […] Σενοσῖρις […] θ […]… ἀρούρης δ ιϛ λβ […]…μ [… ? lines lost …] [column ii] Τιθοῆς […] προ γίνονται …[…] Τιτως …[…] Σεναροῆρις […] …ρα […] [… ? lines lost …] [v] τὰ διὰ Ἐπικτήτου