Fragmentary official letter from Julius Markianus, the official in charge of registrations of katoikic (settler) land, to the syntaktikos of the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome. It concerns the transfer of title to katoikic grain and orchard land near Magdola by Dioskourides and Alexandra also called Herais, with payments recorded, in the reign of Antoninus Pius.
In English machine translation
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[…] Julius Markianus also called Quint[…], the official in charge of the registrations (katalochismoi) of the katoikoi, [to …] the syntaktikos of the Polemon division, greeting.
Dioskourides […] and Alexandra also called Herais, daughter of Dionysios, […] year 2 of Antoninus Caesar […] 1/2 have transferred into the [name of …] Alexandra also called Herais […] son of […] Asklepiades, the larger (?) […] of those of the same father and […] from an agreement of year 5 of the deified Hadrian […] of a two-thirds share of grain-bearing […] and they themselves, Dioskourides and Alexandra also called Herais, have transferred […] of Herais the whole grain-bearing (land) […] of the […] agreement concerning […] one and a half and a quarter aroura […] one and a half […] aroura of orchard land […] year […] of Imperator Caesar […] Augustus Pius, Epeiph 30.
[…] and transfer […] of a quarter and other transfers […] the same time […] year […] of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius […] Hadrian, year 3 of the count (?), Hathyr […] Dioskourides and Alexandra paid […] to the account of the registrations of the Arsinoite nome […] of the paternal property […] 5 arouras, 33 drachmas 2 obols, Polemon division […] of Ibion Argaiou, grain-bearing land 1 aroura […] 54 (?) […] to Flavius Domettius […] keepers of the property records of the Arsinoite nome […] of Alexandria, of the […] and Dioskourides, formerly my pupil.
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of the sacred victors and exempt […]
of the sacred victors […]
[…] additionally […]
of Herais daughter of Dionysios […]
[…] to you […]
of Dioskourides son of Alexandros (?) […] the maternal uncle […]
of six and a fifth arouras […] of a katoikic allotment of arouras […] in the place called […]
[…] near the village of Magdola […]
[…] for a year […]
interest of five obols […]
copy […] former gymnasiarch […] supervisors of taxes […]
of Antoninus Caesar the lord […]
of Diogenes son of […]
sown with grain […]
near Magdola […]
one and a half and a quarter […]
of Titus Aelius […]
5 (?) Diogenes […]
twenty-one […]
of another: Sokrates […] Diogenes son of Dionysios […]
of the Arsinoite nome […] Alexandra also called […]
[…]
[…]
of half an aroura […]
one eighth, silver drachmas 4 […]
Augustus Pius […]
The katalochismoi were registrations of transfers of katoikic (military settler) land. The second column preserves only line beginnings.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.