Revenue-return
An example of the monthly statements of receipts submitted by tax-collectors to the strategi. The taxes concerned are different imposts on land, and the p�chismos perister�n�n.
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Monthly return of tax collectors to the strategos for Peenno district TM 21784OxyrhynchusA.D. 219
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A monthly return of tax payments submitted by Aurelius Pat[…] and his fellow collectors of money taxes for the Peenno district of the Middle toparchy to Aurelius Harpokration, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome. It lists sums paid into the public bank in Pauni of year 2 of Elagabalus (AD 219) for the land tax, the libation tax for Dionysos and the measurement of dovecotes.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Harpokration, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Aurelius Pat[…], son of Euty[ch…], and his fellow collectors of money taxes of the metropolis(?), of the Middle toparchy, Peenno district. Statement of payments for the month of Pauni of the present 2nd year of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, as follows:
Of receipts of the present 2nd year:
for the land tax (eparourion), 6 (?) [...] 600 drachmas,
and there were paid into the public bank:
by Septimius Chairemon, for the land tax 143 drachmas 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi, for the eight-drachma tax for the libation of Dionysos 8 drachmas 4 obols 1 chalkous, for the measurement of dovecotes 17 drachmas 5 obols;
Aurelius Achilleus, for the land tax 198 drachmas 5 1/2 obols, for the eight-drachma tax for the libation of Dionysos 8 drachmas 4 obols 1 chalkous;
Aurelius Ap[…] and Ta[…], [for the land tax, drachmas] 116,
[…]
[…] 26.
[Year 2 of Imperator] Caesar [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus …]
[…]
The emperor named Marcus Aurelius Antoninus here is Elagabalus. Eparourion was a money tax on land, and pechismos peristeronon a charge for measuring dovecotes; the figure '6' before 600 drachmas is obscure.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Revenue - return). 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.oxy.10.1283
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἁρποκρατίωνι στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰΑὐρηλίου Πατ Εὐτυχ καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ πρακτόρων ἀργυρικῶν μητροπολιτικῶν μέσης τοπαρχίας Πεεννὼ τόπων. διαστολὴ ἀριθμήσεων μηνὸς Παῦνι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος β ἔτους Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, ἔστι δέ· λημμάτων τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος …