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Request for transfer of tax liability on a quarter aroura bought from Theophile TM 21250Hermopolis6. Juli 603

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A request to the city tax office of Hermopolis, addressed to the accounting assistant Flavius Magistor, by the farmer Aurelius Enoch, asking that the taxes in wheat and gold on a quarter aroura of land he bought from the noblewoman Theophile be transferred from her name to his. It is dated to the ninth year of Emperor Heraclius, 6 July 603 according to the records.

In English machine translation

[† In the name of the Lord and Master J]esus Christ, God and our Saviour. † † In the reign of our most divine master Flavius † [Heraclius, eternal Augustus and Emp]eror, year [ni]nth, Epeiph twelfth, of the seventh indiction, in Hermopolis of the Thebaid † […] [to the public account of the city] of the Hermopolitans, [through] you, Flavius Magistor son of Kallinikos, assistant of the accounting office and distributor (diastoleus) […] [of the district of Dioskorides, from the sa]me city, † Aurelius Enoch son of Pkalios, his mother being […], farmer from the village […] [gree]tings. May your excellency be pleased to relieve Theophile, the most noble daughter of Victor also called […] [from the sa]me city, from the public registers (diastromata) administered by you, of the […] of [clean wh]eat, with freight charges and hundredths and surcharges and all kinds of expenses, 1 1/2 1/4 artabas […] and contributions and 10 carats of gold, on behalf of the account of the abandoned land (eremia) of Kopres […] [from the same city, and] to impose the public [ta]x in both wheat and gold on me and my heirs [and successors and assigns, for the pub]lic dues of the 1/4 aroura of sown and unirrigated land, sold to me by the aforesaid Theophile according to a written […] [deed of security], lying in the marsh of the village of Thynis in the […] I found. [They] agree, (my) successors and assigns, to have paid and to pay to the same public […] [account the public tax] with the future contributions of the public dues of the same district of Dioskorides […] […]

The text is of the type called epistalma tou somatismou, a request to transfer land tax registration to a new owner. The regnal year 9 of Heraclius does not match 603 (Heraclius began in 610), so the restored emperor's name or the date is problematic.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ἐπίσταλμα τοῦ σωματισμοῦ). 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 · 6. Juli 603 · Hermopolis

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