An official account listing payments in gold solidi made to visiting officials, soldiers and accountants who came to collect taxes in gold, grain, clothing and recruit levies. Contributions from various groups, including stolarchs, weavers and tax officials of Ptolemais, are itemized. It dates to the later 4th century AD and comes from Antinoopolis.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] 12 solidi
[…] of the judgment, 4 solidi
[…]
[…] 15 solidi
to […] who came for the […] of the 4th and 5th indictions, 8th and 9th years, 50 solidi
To Maximus, prefect, who came for the gold of the receivers, 33 solidi
as follows:
from the stolarchs, 7 solidi
from the weavers of trimita cloth, 2 solidi
from the weavers, 2 solidi
from the foreigners, 1 solidus
{from the townsmen} solidus ⟦1 1/2⟧
from the townsmen, 1 solidus
from the exactors, 2 solidi
and from the assessors, 6 solidi
and from the receivers, 12 solidi
of the city of Ptolemais.
To Posidonios, official, who came for the clothing, 4 solidi
To the men of Ombos who came about the annona, 2 solidi
[verso]
To Pankratios and Theodoros, officials, who came for the gold for recruits and pack-animals […]
To Serenos, grain collector, […] and Dionysios who came […] 18 solidi
To Isidoros and Melas and another Isidoros, accountants, for the assessment, 50 solidi
To Besas, official, who came about the grain, 4 solidi
To Paulos, official, who came likewise about the grain, 3 solidi
To Sarapion, official, about the clothing, 3 solidi
To Silvanus, official, about the grain, 1 solidus
To Paphnouthis, beneficiarius, who came about the assessment, 12 solidi
To Avidius and Maximus, officials, who came about those from the capitation-tax payers, 4 solidi
To Besammon and Kopres, beneficiarii, who came about the exemption (excusatum), 5 solidi
To Theodoros and Phibion, singulares, who came about the gold for recruits, 6 solidi
The payments appear to be gratuities or fees (sportulae) to officials sent on collection missions. Officium, beneficiarius and singularis are Roman administrative and military ranks with no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official Account of Expenditure). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.