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Account of apomoira and taxes on vineyards, orchards and sacred land TM 21841Oxyrhynchitesca. 208 (?)

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A fragment of a tax account from the Oxyrhynchite nome, around AD 208, recording money taxes on vineyards and orchards for year 16. It totals the apomoira, a tax on vineyards and orchards, with additional payments and surcharges, and a charge on sacred land.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] Total […] Year 16: [vineyards, of which the allage (?), arouras] […], [talents] […], [drachmas] […], [with additional payments 4,100 drachmas 1 chalkous,] of which [with surcharges 3,159 drachmas 2 obols,] of equal status, arouras […], talents […], [drachmas] […], orchards, of which the allage (?), 60 1/4 1/16 1/128 1/512 arouras, 751 drachmas 2 1/2 obols 1 chalkous, of equal status, 17 1/4 1/16 1/64 arouras, 201 drachmas 1 obol 1 chalkous. Total of the apomoira: 8 talents 213 drachmas 4 obols 2 chalkoi, with additional payments 4,100 drachmas 1 chalkous, of which with surcharges 3,159 drachmas 2 obols, of sacred land 885 drachmas 2 obols 2 chalkoi, with additional payments 55 drachmas 1 1/2 obols 3 chalkoi, total 940 drachmas 4 obols 1 chalkous. Grand total [8 talents] 4,313 drachmas 4 obols 3 chalkoi. […] [drachmas] […]15 (?) 2 1/2 obols [… lines lost …]

The apomoira was originally a Ptolemaic levy on vineyards and orchards for temple cults; 'allage' and 'isonomos' denote categories of land whose exact meaning is debated. 'Additional payments' (prosdiagraphomena) were surcharges added to the main sums.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Hieratic Taxes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.12.1437

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 208 (?) · Oxyrhynchites

[… ? lines lost …] γίνονται […] ιϛ ἔτους ἀμπελώνων ὧν ἀλλαγὴ ἄρουραι[…]τάλαντα[…]δραχμαὶ[…], προσδιαγραφομένων δραχμαὶ Δρ χαλκοῦς α, ὧν σὺν διαφόροις δραχμαὶ Γρνθ διώβολον , ἰσονόμου ἄρουραι […] τάλαντα […]δραχμαὶ[…], παραδείσων ὧν ἀλλαγὴ ἄρουραι ξ δ ιϛ ρκη φιβ δραχμαὶ ψνα διώβολ…