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Account of tax revenues paid through collectors and the bank TM 20947Oxyrhynchites (?)202 - 203

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Fragmentary money account from the Oxyrhynchite nome (?) of AD 202-203, recording sums in talents and drachmas collected through tax collectors and paid through the bank, including tax-farm revenues and temple taxes, for the 11th year of Septimius Severus and Caracalla.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] 12 drachmas 4 1/2 obols […] …12 drachmas […] 8 chalkoi […] 1 talent 1,163 drachmas, 1 […]… until […] I received, having delivered […]… from the account […] into the following month […] … […] of the account at the bank […] for the current 11th year […] Pius Pertinax […] Pii Augusti […] to the bankers […] […] […] [column 2] […] […] of Psylis 300 drachmas […] […] Thmoine […] […] […] […] […] Thmoinete(?) 8 drachmas and […] […] 800 drachmas, metropolis […] of Phebeichis 1,068 drachmas, total 120 […] 543 drachmas […] Total through the collectors 8 talents 523 drachmas […] and through the bank […] of tax-farmed contracts of the administration […] of the 11th year 4,021 drachmas 4 obols; of temple taxes 48 drachmas […] of goods(?) 3,494 drachmas of the 10th year, of the administration, in mills(?) 231 drachmas […] […] […] 20, 76 drachmas 3 obols, through […] Total through the bank 3 talents 2[…] drachmas […] Total to the sum of the […] 12 talents [3,600 drachmas] […] and from 118 1,133 drachmas 4 obols […] Total to the same 12 talents 47[…] drachmas […] and with the arrears(?) 35 talents 4,506 drachmas […] of the 9th year, expenses […]

The 11th year refers to the joint reign of Septimius Severus (styled Pius Pertinax) and Caracalla. Several abbreviations (e.g. 'ἐγλ', 'εἰδ') are uncertain in meaning; 'arrears' and 'goods' are tentative renderings.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rechnung in Geld). 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 · 202 - 203 · Oxyrhynchites (?)

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