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Declaration on unpaid levies of Aurelia Charite's farmers at Senoabis TM 15600Hermopolites4. Mai 341

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A sworn declaration by Aurelius Silvanus, a tax official of the 3rd pagus, to the landowner Aurelia Charite, stating that her farmers at the village of Senoabis had not paid the levies in meat, wheat, barley, chaff and freight charges for the 13th and 14th indictions. It was written in the Hermopolite nome on 4 May 341.

In English machine translation

Aurelius Silvanus, diastoleus of the 3rd pagus, to Aurelia Charite daughter of Amazonios, greetings. I acknowledge: the farmers of you(?) of Senoabis, of your arouras, have not given meat, nor grain and barley and chaff and freight charges for the fourteenth and thirteenth indictions, in accordance with the joint reckoning (?) with Hermes, gnoster of the same village, and that I have made no false statement. The acknowledgement is valid, and having been asked the formal question I acknowledged it. I, Aurelius Silvanus: it is my own handwriting, and I swore the divine oath. In the consulship of Antonius Marcellinus and Petronius Probinus, the most illustrious, Pachon 9.

A diastoleus was an official who checked and allocated tax assessments; a gnoster was a village official who certified identities and facts. The phrase 'ἐσοῦ' appears to be a scribal error, probably for 'σου' (your).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Erklärung über nicht-bezahlte Steuern). 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 · 4. Mai 341 · Hermopolites

Αὐρήλιος Σιλβανὸς διαστολεὺς γ πάγου Αὐρηλίᾳ Χαρίτῃ Ἀμαζονίου χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ· οἱ γεωργοὶ ἐσοῦ τῆς Σενοάβεως τῶν ἀρουρῶν σου οὐ δεδώκασιν κρέας οὐδὲ σῖτον καὶ κριθὴν καὶ ἄχυρον καὶ ναῦλον τῆς τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης καὶ τρεισκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτιώνων ἀκολούθως τῇ συνάρσει μετὰ Ἑρμοῦ γνω…