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Five-day account of harbour dues on boats carrying salted fish TM 10573Arsinoites23. Sept. 199

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A copy of a five-day account submitted to Demetrios, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, by Didymos and his fellow supervisors of the harbour-due on fishing boats bringing in salted fish. It lists the payments received at the harbour of Alsos at the metropolis and at Ptolemais Hormou for Thoth 21 to 25 of year 8, AD 199.

In English machine translation

Copy. To Demetrios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division, from Didymos and his associates, supervisors of the harbour-due on fishing boats bringing in salted fish. Account of the receipts from the aforesaid supervision for the days from the 21st to the 25th, the day on which I was appointed supervisor, of the month Thoth of the present 8th year. It is as follows: Harbour of Alsos of the metropolis: 21st to 22nd, nil (?) 23rd, Isidoros, for 9 drachmas 24th, nil (?) 25th, Phanias, for [drachmas] 67 Total for the five-day period, 76 drachmas. Ptolemais Hormou, likewise: 21st to 25th, nil (?) Total, the aforesaid […] […] [… lines lost …]

The abbreviation Ἑρ(μῆς), literally 'Hermes', is used in such accounts to mark days with no receipts, rendered here as 'nil (?)'. The prothmeion was a harbour or ferry due levied on boats.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung von Steuereinnehmern). 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 · 23. Sept. 199 · Arsinoites

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