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Fragment of an official report on records and catoecic land TM 9295Arsinoites181 (?)

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Fragmentary official document from the Arsinoite nome, probably dating to about AD 181, concerning an inquiry into records. It names Harpokration the strategos, Hermaios the royal scribe, assistant record-keepers of the Herakleides division, a village scribe, and refers to catoecic land and a wine-press.

In English machine translation

[Column 1] […] … [Hel]len (?) […] […] […] … of the […] […] the epi[strategos (?)] […] to their namesakes (?) […] Pharmouthi … […] of catoecic (land) from […] concerning Hera[…] to lie (?) […] from the strat[egos (?)] […] voluntar[ily (?)] […] to [Column 2] to have communicated the […] within the appointed time limit […] that they may know what follows […] and Harpokration, strate[gos] […] Hermaios, royal scr[ibe] […] separated, having been examined […] to them from the … […] it results, therefore, that while […] was in charge […] of the assistant record-keepers […] that the one of the … became […] […] and that Heron declared […] […] of the category declared […] […] of a wine-press as in the village […] […] … and of the assistant record-keepers […] of the Herakleides division, just as also […] […]lius Aquila is seen through the […] to have added nothing else […] of the village scribe, and the one of the […] … […] … [… lines lost …]

The hypobibliophylakes were assistant keepers of the property record office (bibliotheke enkteseon). The date is uncertain.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 181 (?) · Arsinoites

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