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Col. II Situated to the north, a consecrated garden the property of Hermione daughter of Apollonides (5 13/32 arourai). Of these a quarter (of an aroura) occupied by a storehouse, 1/32 by an empty dovecote, and 5 1/8 are waste land. Neighbours: to the south, waste land belonging to Demetrios the Thracian; to the north, a synagogue; to the west the city boundary; to the east the canal of Argaitis. Situated to the north, a Jewish synagogue represented by Pertollos, and a consecrated garden cultivated by a tenant, Petesouchos son of Marres, of 3 13/16 arourai and 1 1/2 arourai planted with flowers and vegetables. Neighbors: to the south Hermione daughter of Apollonides; to the north and west the city boundary; to the east the canal of Argaitis. Situated to the north, and narrowing the west outside the city for 4 1/2 schoinia, Sarapion, who holds from the Queen 1 aroura of sacred land, of which half is occupied by empty houses, and half is unoccupied. Col. III . . . Neighbors: to the south the Jewish synagogue; to the north and west the city boundary; to the east the canal of Argaitis. Northwards as far as the city boundary . . . (CPJ 1.134, I BCE, Arsinoë-Crocodilopolis).

Note also that the synagogue was located near a canal, probably because of the practice of ritual bathing before entry into a synagogue.