Declaration by supervisors of a tax contract that nothing was collected TM 21156Thinites11. Jan. 143

A fragmentary report addressed to Zoilos by supervisors (epiteretai) of a tax contract and their partners, declaring that nothing was collected between the 11th and 15th of Tybi in year 6 of Antoninus Pius. It belongs to a series of such declarations from the Thinite nome, dated AD 143.

In English machine translation

Epiteretai were supervisors overseeing the collection of a farmed tax or revenue; such reports of nil receipts for five-day periods were routine. The record's date of 11 January (Tybi 16) relies on a restored day in the text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Déclarations 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.