One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9126
Register of seed loans to farmers with oath to sow the land TM 9126Arsinoites138 - 161
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Fragments of a register of seed loans or land allocations to village farmers, listing areas of estate land and revenue land and wheat amounts handled through village elders and named farmers on mutual security, followed by an oath under Antoninus Pius to sow the inundated land with the borrowed seed. From the Arsinoite nome, AD 138-161.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…] […]
[…] […]
[…] […]
[…] […] arouras […] 16 1/32 1/64 […]
[through] […] A[…] […]
[…] […] of Apol[l…]
[…] son of Hermaios, of estate land, arouras […] 1/2 1/8 1/32 1/64 […]
through Hermas son of Polydeukes and D[…]
[…] the 2 and the other elders and
Apynchis son of Petteiris and Nepheros
son of Orsenouphis and the other farmers
of the village, all on mutual security;
and of revenue land, 50 arouras, 47 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat
through the same elders and Apynchis
son of Petteiris and Nepheros son of Orsenouphis and
Germanos, mother Tamystha, and
[column 2]
[…]
[…] and
[…] son of […]armibous and
[…] of the same (mother) and
[…] son of Ap[…] and
[…] fatherless, mother Heras, and
[…]erios son of Ammonios, mother Thermoutharion, and
Diogenes his brother and Longinus
son of Agathopous, mother Anthestia, and
Anthestios son of Diogenes and Pouoris
also called Straton, mother Sambous, and
Claudianus, fatherless, mother Aphrodous, and
Noumissios, fatherless, mother Tamystha, and
the other farmers of the village.
[column 3]
[…]
[…]
I swear by […]
the fortune of Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius […]
[…]
[…] any of these […] and
that all the land has been soaked and inundated, which I will also water and sow
with wheat and barley and […]
edible crops […] the seed borrowed, clean and […]
to deposit soundly in the land, deducting nothing from it […]
Estate land (ousiake ge) and revenue land (prosodou ge) were categories of state-owned land. Mutual security (allelengye) made the farmers jointly liable for the loan.
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.
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