Fragmentary official text, apparently an extract from a strategos's record or a declaration about land, in which someone reports payments made in the past 12th year, dues collected by himself and his predecessor, and sums in drachmas including the naubion tax on dikes. It dates to AD 204-205, probably from Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
[verso, column 1]
[…]nios, strategos, among other things:
[…] brought up (?)
[…] on behalf of which the
[…] […] in the past 12th year I paid
[…] taken up by me
[…] and by my predecessor
[…] likewise the dues
[…] planting, period
[…] on the …
[…] but of other years
[…]os Similis and as
[he is styled] […] for other arouras
1/2 1/4
[…] 35 drachmas 5 obols
choinix for naubion
[…] 162 drachmas 3 obols
1/2 obol, choinix
[column 2]
and through another […]
[…]
The naubion was a tax levied on land, originally for dike and canal maintenance, often paid in money with a supplementary choinix charge. Provenance is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.