A contract from Karanis in the reign of Trajan in which Petesouchos son of Papontos and Thaesis daughter of Pasion, acting with a guardian, divide between them a jointly held one-aroura olive grove of catoecic land in three plots near Psenarpsenesis. Each takes a half share, and the boundaries of each portion are described.
In English machine translation
Year […] of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, month […], at Karanis in the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. Petesouchos son of Papontos, aged about 30, with a scar under the first finger of the […] hand, and Thaesis daughter of Pasion, aged about 32, without distinguishing marks, a townswoman, with her guardian […] son of Phaesis, aged about […]-five, with a scar on the right forearm, acknowledge [to one another] that they have divided between themselves, from now for all time, the 1 aroura, or however much it may be, of olive grove in the catoecic category belonging to them, each as it stands, in three plots near Psenarpsenesis, [and that out of the] division they have made between themselves by willing agreement, Petesouchos has taken for the half share falling to him the whole third plot, whose neighbours are: on the south, [the part which] Thaesis has taken from the first plot; on the north, the olive grove of Aphrodisia daughter of Apollodoros and of Charidemos son of Onnophris; on the west, the olive grove of the same Charidemos; on the east, the olive grove of Thermouthis; and the remainder, to make up the half share falling to him, from the western part of the first plot, whose neighbours are: on the south, a canal; on the north, the olive grove of Charidemos son of Onnophris; on the west, the olive grove of Thermouthis; [on the east, the part which] Thaesis has taken; and Thaesis for the share falling to her has taken the whole [second plot, whose neighbours are: on the south,] a canal; on the north, the olive grove of the aforementioned Aphrodisia; on the west, the olive grove of Thermouthis; [on the east, the olive grove of …]; and the remainder, to make up the half share falling to her, from the [eastern part] of the first plot, whose neighbours are: on the south, a canal; on the north, the [third plot] which Petesouchos has taken […] half share and the olive grove of Charidemos; on the west, the part which Petesouchos has taken; [on the east, the olive grove of Thermouthis]. The division has been made by allotment, the whole land remaining […] and […] and the […] of the same in the things according to this […]
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Catoecic land was a category of privately held land originally granted to settlers, taxed at a favourable rate. The end of the document is lost.
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