Report of a tax-farmer to the strategos, Aurelios Anoubion
A monthly return for Pauni of receipts of taxation, written by the farmer of a tax upon sellers of two different kinds of pulse.
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Monthly return of a tax on sellers of athera and orobos TM 21836Oxyrhynchos214 A.D.
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A monthly report to the strategos Aurelius Anoubion from Heraklas of Oxyrhynchus, who was involved in farming a tax on sellers of athera (a wheat-based gruel) and orobos (bitter vetch). He declares 80 drachmas collected in the month Pauni of Caracalla's 22nd year and paid into the local public bank.
In English machine translation
To Aurelius Anoubion, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome,
from Heraklas son of Saras son of Akous, his mother being Nikaia, from the city of Oxyrhynchus, surety (?) of the contract for the tax on sellers of athera and orobos. Monthly account for Pauni of the present 22nd year of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Caesar the lord.
It is as follows: from sellers of athera and orobos 80 drachmas, total 80 drachmas, which are also being paid into the local public bank.
Year 22 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus
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The term hyposchesarios denotes a person who made the bid or stood bound for a tax contract; it has no exact English equivalent. Athera is a kind of gruel or grain product, orobos bitter vetch.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of a Tax - farmer to a Strategus). 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.12.1432
Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀνουβίωνι στρατηγῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Ἡρακλᾶτος Σαρᾶ τοῦ Ἀκοῦ μητρὸς Νικαίας ἀπʼ Ὀξυρύγχων πόλεως ὑποσχεσαρίου ὠνῆς ἀθηροπωλῶν καὶ ὀρβιοπωλῶν. μηνιαῖος λόγος τοῦ Παῦνι τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος κβ ἔτους Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σεουήρου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου. ἔστι δέ. παρὰ ἀθηροπωλῶν κα…