DDbDP transcription: p.col.7.172 [xml]
ca. AD 341-2? Karanis
[- ca.10 - χαί]ρειν· vac. ?
[παρὰ Αὐρ]η̣λ̣ί̣ο̣υ Οὐαλ[ερίου] α̣ν̣τιουρίου ἀπὸ κώμης Κ̣α̣ρ̣[ανίδος]
[τοῦ Ἀρσι]ν̣οίτου νομοῦ̣. τελῶ ἐγὼ καὶ οἱ ἀδελφ[οὶ ἐμ]ο̣[ῦ]
5[ὑπὲρ ἀρ]ο̣[υ]ρ̣ῶν ὀγδοήκοντα ἀφʼ ὧν σπιρονται(*) τὸ ἥμ̣[ισ]υ̣
[μέρος,] τ̣[ὸ δ]ὲ λοιπὸν ἥ̣μ̣ι̣σ̣υ μέρος ἀ̣γ̣ε̣ώ̣ρ̣[γ]η̣τόν̣ ἐ̣σ̣τ̣ι̣ν̣.
ἐ̣π̣[ειδὴ ̣ ̣] ἀ̣ν̣α̣μετρουμ̣[έ]ν̣ης τῆς γῆς ὁ ὁριο̣δίκτης(*) τῶν
τ̣ό̣[πω]ν̣ Π̣αλήμων κατὰ ἐθελοκακίαν πάσας τὰς
ἀρ̣[ούρ]α̣ς ὑπέβαλεν σπο̣ρίμ[α]ς κα̣ὶ τέλεον ἃ μέ̣τρ̣ι̣α
10 ̣ ̣[ ̣] ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ἐπὶ(*) οὖν̣ καὶ π̣οτίστρα ἔ̣σ̣τ̣ιν διʼ ἧ̣ς̣
κ̣[αὶ πο(?)]τ̣ί̣ζ̣ο̣νται τὰ ἡμέτ̣ε̣ρα γῄδια, ὁ αὐτὸς ὁριοδίκ̣της(*)
Π̣[αλ]ήμων ὑπέβαλ̣[ε]ν̣ αὐτὰς ἐν τάξι(*) σπορίμης
γῆ̣ς̣ πάντων ποτιζόντων ἐξ αὐτῆς καὶ μηδὲ τ̣ῶ̣ν̣
̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣] σπαρέντων, παρακαλῶ τὴν σὴν λαμπρότητα
15ἐ̣π̣ι̣δ̣ὴ(*) καὶ Πορφυρίου τοῦ γεομέτρου(*) ἀνα̣μετρήσαν-
το̣[ς] δίκαιον ἔπραξεν καὶ τὴν μὲν σπορίμην ὡ̣ς̣
σπ̣[ορί]μ̣η̣ν̣ ἠνένενκεν(*), τὴν δὲ χερσοι(*) ἁμμόχωστον
ὡ̣ς̣ [χέρσο]ν ἤνενκεν(*), ὁ δὲ Παλήμων ὁ ὁριοδίκτης(*)
ὑπ̣[έ]β̣αλεν τὰς πάσας ἀρούρας σπορίμας {ἐποίησεν}
20καὶ ἐ̣[πει]δὴ Ταπάεις Ἑρᾶ συνγενική μου τ̣ῇ̣ διαφυγῇ ἐχρή̣[σ]α̣τ̣ο̣
κε̣κ̣[τημ]έ̣νη ἀρούρας εἴκοσι τρῖ̣ς̣(*) ἃ̣ς καλλίσ[τ]ας οὔσας εἰς [α]ὐ-
τὴν̣ [ἀ]ν̣έ̣π̣ε̣μ̣ψαν ἐχουσαν υ[ ̣]δε̣ς̣ δύο ̣[ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣σ̣ι̣α̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
ε̣ι̣ς̣ [ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὅπως ε[ἴ] σοι δόξε̣ι̣εν κελεῦ̣[σ]αι ἀνα ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣
[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὁριοδεί]κτου ἐκινου(*) ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ ̣[ -ca.?- ]
25[- ca.10 -] ̣ ̣τα ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣] ̣[ -ca.?- ]
Editorial History; All History; (detailed)
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APIS Translation (English)
[To ... ], the most distinguished praeses [of Augustamnica?], greeting [from] Aurelius Valerius son of Antiourios from the village of Karanis [of the] Arsinoite Nome. I pay taxes, I and my brothers, [for] eighty arouras, of which one-half are sown, and the other half are unfarmed. Since ... when the land was measured, the horiodiktes of the district, Palemon, because of malice recorded all the arouras as arable and which are mediocre, . . . , since there is a conduit through which our plots are watered, the same horiodiktes Palemon reported them in the category of arable land, although everybody draws water from it [the conduit], not [all the adjacent land] is seeded. I ask your magnificence, since also when Porphyrios the surveyor measured he did justice and reported the arable land as arable, but the waste, sandy land as waste land, but Palemon the horiodiktes reported all the arouras as arable, and since Tapaeis daughter of Heras, my kinsman, has taken to flight, being the possessor of twenty-three of the finest possible arouras they reported her as having ... so that if it please you to order ... that horiodiktes.