An account from Oxyrhynchus calculating a remission of one quarter of the grain levy (embole) for Alexandria, gold taxes and other dues, converting wheat into gold solidi. The back gives further conversions of wheat quantities into solidi on the Alexandrian standard.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Account of the remission of the fourth part, as follows.
For the embole (grain shipment) of wheat, by the cancellus measure, 2 myriads 5,972 1/2 artabas (i.e. 25,972 1/2 artabas);
of these the fourth part, wheat by the cancellus measure, 6,343 artabas 5 choinikes,
at 9 1/6 (?) artabas by the cancellus measure to 1 solidus of refined gold,
692 full solidi of refined gold, making on the Alexandrian standard 735 solidi 6 carats.
And for public gold taxes of each heading, together with the price of the public barley and the customary fees of the officials (taxeotai) and other items, on the Alexandrian standard 2,296 solidi 10 1/2 carats, of which, for items on which the fourth is not remitted, more or less 300 solidi,
remainder 1,997 (?) solidi 10 1/2 carats; of these the fourth part,
on the Alexandrian standard 499 solidi 8 1/2 carats.
Total of the remission of the fourth part together with the price of the wheat, 1,234 solidi 14 1/2 carats, Alexandrian.
[verso]
1 myriad 2,321 (i.e. 12,321) artabas 3 choinikes, making on the Alexandrian standard 1,124 solidi … 96 from 6,600 (?) ……
1 myriad 7,718 1/2 1/4 (i.e. 17,718 3/4) artabas, making on the Alexandrian standard 1,473 1/2 solidi 24 48 96 …
2,527 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes, making on the Alexandrian standard 242 2/3 solidi 96 …
3 myriads 2,467 1/2 (i.e. 32,467 1/2) artabas 5 choinikes, making on the Alexandrian standard 2,839 solidi …
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One record dates the papyrus to the 7th century rather than 574-582. The 'cancellus' artaba was a standard official measure; solidi of refined (obryzon) gold are distinguished from those on the Alexandrian standard, and some figures in the edition are inconsistent or uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Remissions 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.