Report [April 22, 229 AD]
Report of proceedings: the villagers were summoned before the procurator; the subject is money and grain taxes
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Proceedings before the procurator Theophanes concerning taxes of Aphrodite villagers TM 17637Antaiopolis229 CE
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Report of proceedings held before the tribunal at Antaiopolis, in which the procurator Theophanes summoned a group of villagers from Aphrodite, mostly named Besarion. The discussion concerns the payment of money taxes and grain taxes, including a half-artaba levy and a deadline for payment.
In English machine translation
[1]
Year 8, Pharmouthi 27, at Antaiopolis, before the tribunal.
Theophanes ordered those from the village of Aphrodite (to be called);
and when Besarion son of Besarion and Besarion son of Horos and […]on son of Sarapion and Besarion also called […] … and Besi… son of […]
Bassos and Di… son of […] and Sarapion son of […]
and Besarion … also called Isidoros had been called and had answered,
Theophanes, procurator, said to them: "… our most illustrious prefect […] those from the metropolis
[…] … […]"
…
[… ? lines lost …]
[2]
Theophanes said to those from Aphrodite: "What do you say?" Besarion
said: "The money taxes […] in no way neglect (?) […] to bring, just as the grain taxes
received a fixed term; let him receive these too." After other things Theophanes
said to the villagers: "It was resolved in common that
[…] you […] artabas […] of the artaba, and the money taxes
[…] undertake (?) […] to
[…] memorandum (?) […]." After other things
[Theophanes] said: "Within […] the money taxes."
Theophanes, procurator, said: "[…] that you pay in the half-artaba and the money taxes […] and the following"
…
The text dates itself to Year 8, Pharmouthi 27, which corresponds to 22 April 229 under Severus Alexander. "Money taxes" (argyrika) and "grain taxes" (sitika) are the two main categories of Egyptian taxation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Proceedings). 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.col.8.235
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