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Application for transfer of tax liability on dowry property to a husband TM 22022Oxyrhynchos15. Apr. 538

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An application by a noblewoman of Oxyrhynchus, daughter of Apollos, to the tax-collecting office of the estate of Timagenes, asking that the taxes on property she had brought as dowry to her husband Julius be removed from her late mother Theoprepeia's name in the tax registers and transferred to his name. It covers wheat for the grain shipment (embole) and gold taxes, and was dated 15 April 538 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Flavius Ioannes the most glorious, Pharmouthi 20, indiction 1, in the city of Oxyrhynchus. To the exactorial office of the division and house of Timagenes of illustrious memory, through you, the eloquent […] Theodoros, assistant of the exactorship of this splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites, [Flavia] Eutheia (?), the most noble daughter of Apollos of pious memory, formerly peri[…], from this splendid city of the Oxyrhynchites. From the public registers kept by you, from the name of Theoprepeia, my blessed mother, the public tax for my aforementioned property, which was conveyed by me to my husband, the reverend Julius […], by way of dowry in accordance with the marriage contracts made between us, namely for the embole, of clean wheat by the standard measure at the public granary, […] artabas […], and for gold taxes of all their kinds, 8 1/2 1/8 carats of gold in full, these taxes together with all the customary expenses attached to them, please remove; and transfer and register all these aforementioned public taxes to the names of my same husband, the same reverend Julius, starting from the embole of crops and gold taxes of the second indiction, God willing, and for all time thereafter. And for the security of your admirable self and of the public account I have used this application for transfer with my signature as stated above. † † I, Flavia Eutheia (?), the most noble daughter of Apollos of pious memory, formerly peri[…], the aforesaid, have made this application for transfer […] as stated above, and I signed […] […]

The woman's name is restored as Flavia Euetheia; the Greek reads Euetheia in the signature. 'Somatismos' is the technical term for registering a tax liability under a new taxpayer's name.'Embole' is the grain levy shipped to the capital."}

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Application for Alteration in Taxing - Lists). 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 · 15. Apr. 538 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου Φαρμοῦθι κ ἰνδικτίονος α ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει. τῇ ἐξακτορικῇ τάξει μερίδος καὶ οἴκου τοῦ τῆς περιβλέπτου μνήμης Τιμαγένους διὰ σοῦ τοῦ ἐλλογίμου[…] Θεοδώρου βοηθοῦ ἐξακτορίας ταύτης τῆς λαμπρᾶς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως Φλαουία Εὐήθεια ἡ εὐγενεστά…