Fragment of memorandum (?)
A fragment of a memorandum (?) about the cultivation of certain vineyards in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 995
Memorandum on the planting of vineyards near Philadelphia TM 995Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)About 243 BC
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Fragment of a memorandum from the Zenon archive about vineyards near Philadelphia in the Fayum. It notes land that lay uncultivated after being abandoned until Kriton planted it in year 3, and a vineyard planted by Epharmostos in year 2 in the sandy land beside a vineyard on the gift-estate of Apollonios.
In English machine translation
[…]
… and of the […] having abandoned (it), for the same reason it lay uncultivated until Kriton planted it in year 3.
And Epharmostos has planted another vineyard in year 2 in the sandy land to the south, on the boundaries of the existing vineyard in the sandy land which is in the gift-estate of Apollonios.
It belongs to the abandoned […]
[…]
The dōrea (gift-estate) was the large estate granted to the finance minister Apollonios by Ptolemy II. 'Sandy land' (hyphammos) refers to a category of marginal land at the desert edge.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of memorandum (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.3.59352
[… ? lines lost …] τῶν δὲ […] ἐγλιπόντων διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν ἐχερσεύθη ἕως Κρίτων κατεφύτευσεν ἐν τῶι γ ἔτει. καὶ ἕτερον δὲ ἀμπελῶνα πεφύτευκεν Ἐφάρμοστος ἐν τῶι β ἔτει ἐν τῆι πρὸς νότον ὑφάμμωι ἐπὶ τῶν ὁρίων τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος ἐν τῆι ὑφάμμωι ἀμπελῶνος τοῦ ἐν τῆι Ἀπολλωνίου δωρεᾶι. …