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Report of a topogrammateus on dry land suitable for vines, with seed-grain account TM 968730Arsinoites226 - 225 v.Chr.

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Report submitted through the topogrammateus Manres on uncultivated dry land outside the grain and money tax assessment, which the village scribe Harthotes of Ptolemais Hormou declared fit only for vines, with plot measurements near Syron. The back lists deficits of seed grain for the sowing of year 22 in several Arsinoite villages. Arsinoite nome, 226-225 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] 204 1/2 (?) 511 1/2 1/3 From Manres, topogrammateus: 255 1/2 1/3 1/8 from the [land] in the account of the […] year 51 1/6 of dry land outside the grain- and money-tax assessment, which Harthotes, komogrammateus of Ptolemais Hormou […], records as being suitable for planting vines and not capable of being sown with grain nor with sesame, the value also being set alongside. Of the village of Syron: to the north of the vineyard of Tapsois: 1st (plot) 1 1/4 1/8, 1 1/2 1/4 1/8, likewise, likewise, total 2 1/2 1/4 1/8 2nd plot: 1/2 1/2, likewise, likewise, total 1 3rd plot: 1 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/16, likewise 1 1/4, total 3 1/8 1/16 total 7 1/16. Value: the aroura 300 […] […] [verso] Of Thphois […] of the seed lacking […] administration (?) for the sowing of year 22: Of Karanis: wheat 1531 1/4 1/8, 430 1/2 1/8, barley […] which (in) wheat 170 1/2, total […] wheat 1[…] Of Patsontis: wheat 195 […] Of Philopator: wheat 1122 […], barley 594 1/2 which (in) wheat 356 […], total 1478 […] Of the same: wheat 66 1/4, barley 154 1/2 1/3 which (in) wheat 92 1/2 1/3, total 159 1/12 Of Bakchias: wheat 340 1/4, 157 1/4, barley 417 1/16 which (in) wheat 250 1/4, total 407 1/2 Of the woodland of Philadelphia: […] wheat 90 1/3 […] Of Soutmei: wheat 32 1/4 […] Of the village of Arabs: wheat 69 1/3 1/8, barley 16 1/3 1/44 (?) 1/4, which (in) wheat 9 1/2 1/3, which (in) wheat 26 1/2 total artabas of wheat […]

Many figures are uncertain and several were deleted by the scribe. Topogrammateus and komogrammateus are district and village scribes of the Ptolemaic administration.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bericht eines Topogrammateus über brachliegendes Land). 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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