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A monthly return from Anoubas and his fellow tax collectors of the village of Archelais to Philoxenos, strategos of the Themistes and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome, reporting payments into the public bank for Tybi. It records 120 drachmas of poll tax and 80 drachmas of plant tax, 200 drachmas in all, and is dated 30 January 196.
The collectors are from Archelais, though the papyrus is recorded as from Euhemeria. The phoros phyton was a tax on land planted with trees or vines.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax - Collectors’ Return). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Tax-collectors' return. Addressed to Philoxenus, strategos of the Themistes and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome from Anoubas and partners, tax collectors of Archelais Acknowledges receipt of amounts for poll tax (120 dr.) and the plant tax (80 dr.)
Φιλοξένῳ στρατηγῷ Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος μερίδων Ἀνουβᾶς καὶ μέτοχοι πράκτορες Ἀρχελαίδος. διεγράφη εἰς μῆνα Τῦβι ἐπὶ τὴν δημοσίαν τράπεζαν τοῦ δ ἔτους λαογραφίας δραχμαὶ ρκ, φόρου φυτῶν δραχμαὶ π, γίνονται δραχμαὶ σ. ἔτους δ Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Σεβαστοῦ, Μεχεὶρ…
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