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Tax collectors' return of arrears for Pharbetha TM 10890Theadelphia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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A return submitted by Chairemon and his fellow collectors of money taxes for the village of Pharbetha to the strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. It itemizes, by category, tax arrears outstanding for the month of Phamenoth of year 7, including the naubion, pasture tax, pig tax and temple taxes.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] To […], strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, from Chairemon and his associates, collectors of money taxes of the village of Pharbetha. Statement, by individual and by category, of the arrears of receipts for the month of Phamenoth of the present year 7 […] They are as follows: Administration (dioikesis): tax on sacrifices (?), 15 drachmas, the amount assigned to the epistrategy, 126 drachmas 3 obols, public victims, 51 drachmas 1 obol, naubion of the katoikoi, 1409 drachmas 1 obol, enaphesia, 56 drachmas 5 obols, clerk of the guards, 39 drachmas 4 obols, […] 4 drachmas, […] [column 2] on grain land, 242 drachmas, on vineyards, 125 drachmas, […] 620 drachmas, magdola (dovecotes?), 56 drachmas, salt tax, […] drachmas, dike tax, 25 drachmas, Temple taxes: […] 4 drachmas 1 obol, epistatikon of the priests, 81 drachmas, rent […] 491 drachmas 4 obols, of temples, 21 drachmas 4 obols, Categories: pig tax, 11 drachmas 4 obols, pasture tax, 320 drachmas, freight and other expenses, 47 drachmas, fine on those who sign falsely (?), 106 drachmas 2 obols, […] revenues from house plots, 257 drachmas, on grain land, 241 drachmas, […] [column 3] weavers' tax […] […] […] […] […] […] paid […] […] […] […] […] […] […] […] paid […] […] paid […] […] [verso] and of the sums with the supervisors of the fishery of the marshes of Tebetny […] year 8 […] they paid in year 7, Pauni […] 10 drachmas […] summer pastures […] year 8 […] paid in year 7, Pauni […] […]

Several abbreviated tax names are uncertain in reading or expansion. The naubion was a tax connected with dike and canal work, assessed in money here.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Theadelphia (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

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