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Public declaration disclaiming involvement in collecting the chrysargyron TM 20280Kellis (Oasis Magna)357

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A public declaration addressed to the governor of the Thebaid by Aurelius Psais son of Peteminis of Kellis in the Great Oasis. When the tax officials nominated ten villagers to collect the chrysargyron, a tax on traders, Psais formally dissociated himself from the collection so that he could not later be held liable. Dated by consuls to AD 357.

In English machine translation

To Flavius Domitius Asklepiades, the most illustrious comes, flavialis, governor, from Aurelius Psais son of Peteminis, from the village of Kellis in the Mothite nome, greetings. The collectors and the assessors of the merchants' tax in gold and silver (chrysargyron), nominating ten men from the same village so that the collection might be entrusted to them and be carried out through them, […] and […]. But I, taking care lest at some time […] and I be found accused, became entirely a stranger to this matter, and in order that this should become clear to all and […] that I be considered blameless and not liable, I post this publicly, securing myself and […] that […] the collection […] takes place […] I have had any share with those […] at all. In the consulship of our lords Constantius Augustus for the 9th time and Claudius Julianus Caesar for the 2nd time […]

The chrysargyron (collatio lustralis) was a tax in gold and silver levied on merchants and craftsmen. 'Flavialis' is an honorific rank title 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 Public Declaration to the Praeses Thebaidos). 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 · 357 · Kellis (Oasis Magna)

Φλαυίῳ Δομιτίῳ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ τῷ λαμπροτάτῳ κόετι φλαυιαλίῳ ἡγεμόνι παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ψάιτος Πετεμίνιος ἀπὸ κώμης Κέλλεως τοῦ Μωθίτου νομοῦ χαίρειν. οἵ τε ἀπαιτηταὶ καὶ οἱ ἐπικριταὶ τοῦ πραγματευτικοῦ χρυσαργύρου ὑποβάλλοντες δέκα ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης ὥστε τούτοις ἐνχειρισθῆναι τὴν ἀπαίτη…