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Account of tax payments by individuals and the city of Oxyrhynchus TM 21890Oxyrhynchos

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A fragmentary account from Oxyrhynchus listing payments in drachmas by various taxpayers, including the city itself through its prytanis, private individuals, and heirs of deceased persons. Only the second column survives in part.

In English machine translation

[column 1] [… 23 lines lost …] [column 2] The city of the Oxyrhynchites, through Theoninos also called Sarapion, prytanis in office, 10 drachmas 2 obols; Teiron also called Apollonios, 100 drachmas; Kalioris also called Aschoes, son of Sarapion son of Heranoubion, and other names, … drachmas; Sarapion also called Diade…[…]tios and Apollonarion, 4[…] drachmas; heirs of Mia daughter of Dionysios, through Apollonios, […] drachmas; Claudia Cleopatra also called Heliodora, 40 drachmas; Hermias also called Skybalos, … drachmas; Deios son of Zoilos and his children, … drachmas; Heras also called Maximus, 1… […] drachmas; heirs of P…[…] son of Apollonios, (his) brother, 16 drachmas; Ptolemais also called Didyme, wife, […] drachmas; Taiseis daughter of All[…]no(s), 23[…] drachmas; [… 3 lines lost …]

The prytanis was the presiding magistrate of the city council in Roman Egypt. The first column is entirely lost, so the nature of the tax is not stated in what survives.

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 Taxation). 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 · Oxyrhynchos

[1] [… 23 lines lost …] [2] ἡ Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλις διὰ Θεωνείνου τοῦ καὶ Σαραπίωνος ἐνάρχου πρυτάνεως δραχμὰς ι διώβολον, Τείρων ὁ καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος δραχμὰς ρ, Καλιῶρις ὁ καὶ Ἀσχόης Σαραπίωνος Ἡρανουβίωνος καὶ ἄλλα ὀνόματα δραχμὰς …, Σαραπίων ὁ καὶ Διαδε…[…]τιος καὶ Ἀπολλωνάριον δραχμὰ…