Letter to Theon about a trampled garden, with tax account TM 107323Arsinoites13. Juli 232 v.Chr.

A damaged papyrus from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum), dated 13 July 232 BC, carrying a letter to Theon reporting that a garden had been trampled and raising matters concerning an accounting office and the village. A second column holds a short account of tax sums, including salt tax and a charge on workshops.

In English machine translation

The letter is written on the back of a sheet whose other side is a household register arranged by ethnic category; column ii is an unrelated tax tally. The 'salt tax' (halike) was a Ptolemaic poll tax, and readings of amounts in column ii as drachmas and obols are inferred from the symbols.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Greek household record (kat’ ethnos)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.