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Nil return of overseers of a temple tax contract to the strategos TM 21153Thinites11. Jan. 143

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A short report to Zoilos, strategos of the Thinite nome, from Philadelphos son of Sarapion, Tarou…as daughter of Soter and their fellow overseers of a tax contract connected with temples. They declare that nothing was collected for the days 11 to 15 of the month in year 6 of Antoninus Pius (AD 143).

In English machine translation

[4] To Zoilos alias A[…]nos, strategos of the Thinite nome, from Philadelphos son of Sarapion and Tarou…as daughter of Soter and the other overseers of the contract for the six-drachma tax (?) on temples for the 6th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, for the days from the 11th to the [15th]. Nothing has accrued. Year 6 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, [Tybi 16]. Of Philadelphos and Tarou[…] …ie…y son of Philadel…[…]

Epiteretai were liturgical overseers supervising the collection of a farmed tax; such reports were filed every five days. The reading 'six-drachma tax' for the abbreviation in line 7 is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Déclaration faites par des épitérètes). 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.ifao.1.3_4

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11. Jan. 143 · Thinites

[4] Ζωίλῳ τῷ καὶ Α…[…]νῳ στρατηγῷ Θινίτου παρὰ Φιλαδέλφου Σαραπίωνος καὶ Ταρου…ας Σωτῆρος καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιτηρητῶν ὠνῆς εν ἑξαδράχμῳ ἱερῶν τοῦ ϛ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου τῶν ἀπὸ ια ἕως ιε. οὐδὲν περιγέγονεν. ἔτους ϛ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου…