A tax register listing payments in gold solidi for the 14th indiction, grouped under the shares (merides) assigned to individual tax collectors (exactores) such as Serenos, Taurinos and Heraklammon. Each entry names a taxpayer and the fraction of a solidus owed or paid; it dates to about AD 370-371.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…]ion […]ion […]
Serenos son of Asynkritos, 13th indiction, 1/2 solidus.
Share (meris) of Serenos, exactor,
as follows:
Nemesion son of Hierax, 14th indiction, 1/2 1/3 1/8 solidus
Pinoution son of Hermapollon, 14th indiction, 1/12 solidus
Alexandros son of Eudaimon, 14th indiction, 1/4 1/24 1/48 solidus
Asklepiades son of Herminos, 14th indiction, 1/24 1/48 solidus
Eudaimon through Victorinus, 14th indiction, 1/3 1/8 1/48 solidus
Pinoution son of S[…]odoros, 14th indiction, 1/3 1/12 solidus
Paneoous son of Silvanus, 14th indiction, 1/4 solidus
Heirs of Harpokration, 14th indiction, 1/2 1/3 1/12 solidus
Phoibammon son of Kollouthos, 14th indiction, solidus […]
[…] son of Gennadios […], 14th indiction, 7 solidi
[…] through Theodoros, 14th indiction, 3 solidi
[…] son of Palladios, 14th indiction, solidus […] 1/24 1/48
[…], 14th indiction, solidus […] 1/2 1/24 1/48
[…], 14th indiction, 1/4 1/24 1/48 1/192 solidus
[…], 14th indiction, 1/4 1/48 solidus
[…], 14th indiction, solidus […] 1/192
[…], 14th indiction, ⟦1/4 1/24⟧ 1/3 solidus
[column 2]
Share of Taurinos son of Ammonios, exactor,
as follows:
Herminos son of Eulogios, 14th indiction, 2 1/2 solidi
Phoibammon son of K[…] son of Besas, 1/24 1/192 solidus
Hermaion son of Herminos, 14th indiction, 1/6 solidus
[…]
[column 3]
Share of Heraklammon son of Theophanes,
as follows:
Heirs of Tourbon with Kollouthos
son of Eudaimon, 14th indiction, 1 1/2 solidi
Bekis through Syros, 14th indiction, 1/12 solidus
Heirs of Tourbon likewise, 14th indiction, 2 1/2 solidi
Herakleon son of Tyrannos, 14th indiction, 1/24 1/192 solidus […]
Artemidoros son of Herminos, 14th indiction, 2 1/3 1/12 solidi
Silvanus, dyer, 14th indiction, 1/2 solidus
Pinoution son of Josephis, 1/2 solidus
Theophilos, grain receiver, 14th indiction, 12 solidi
The same likewise, 14th indiction, 4 solidi
The same likewise for the same 14th indiction, 3 solidi
The same likewise, 11 solidi
Total: 30 solidi
[verso]
[…]
A meris is the portion of a tax assessment allocated to a particular collector; the exactor was a late Roman fiscal official. The fraction amounts are given as in the edition and some, especially the 1/192 entries, are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Verzeichnis von μερισμοὶ nach den Listen der ἐξάκτορες). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.