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Application for transfer of tax liability on grain land TM 15402Oxyrhynchos13. Nov. 444

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An application by Aurelius Mousaios son of Arion of Oxyrhynchus, addressed to the tax office of the house of the late Timagenes, asking that about 5 7/8 arouras of private grain land registered under his father's name be transferred for tax purposes to Paulus, a man of perfectissimus rank, from the fourteenth indiction. It is dated 13 November 444.

In English machine translation

† After the consulship of Flavius Maximus for the 2nd time and Paterius, the most illustrious, Hathyr 17. To the division of the house of Timagenes of most notable memory, through […] and Theodoros, assistants of the tax-collecting office of the glorious and most glorious city of the Oxyrhynchites, Aurelius Mousaios son of Arion, from the same city: Remove from our name in the public registers kept by you, from the name of my father Arion, 5 1/2 1/4 1/8 arouras of private grain land, total 5 1/2 1/4 1/8 arouras, from the assessment of the fourteenth indiction, and register them in the name of Paulus, most perfectissimus, son of […]ros, he himself paying all the public taxes on them from the same fourteenth indiction. And for the security of the treasury I have made this application as aforesaid.

Such transfer requests (epistalmata) reflect how large houses like that of Timagenes handled tax collection for the city in late antiquity. The verb translated 'register' (somatizo) means to enter land under a taxpayer's account.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for the Transfer of Taxation). 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 · 13. Nov. 444 · Oxyrhynchos

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