Note about payment of tax
A request for payment of the import tax on the wine which Paboys had brought from the Aphroditopolite nome.
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Request to pay the tax on wine imported by Pabous from the Aphroditopolite nome TM 1291Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A short note from the Zenon archive asking that payment be ordered of the tax on 4 jars of wine that Pabous brought in from the Aphroditopolite nome during the month of Mecheir, amounting to 3 drachmas. It dates to the mid 3rd century BC and comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Give orders to pay the tax on wine, which Pabous imported from the Aphroditopolite nome in Mecheir: for 4 jars, 3 drachmas.
The relative pronoun ἃς is feminine plural and does not agree grammatically with any noun, apparently referring loosely to the jars of wine. The 'jar' (keramion) was a standard container unit for wine.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Note about payment of tax). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.4.59660
σύνταξον διαγράψαι οἴνου τέλος ἃς εἰσήγαγεν Παβῶυς ἐκ τοῦ Ἀφροδιτοπολίτου ἐν τῶι Μεχεὶρ κεραμίων δ δραχμὰς γ.