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Schedule of supplementary taxes per aroura TM 22500Oxyrhynchosca. 357 (?)

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A tax schedule from Oxyrhynchus, probably around AD 357, listing supplementary levies assessed per aroura of land in myriads of denarii, covering clothing, sea freight, recruits' tax, vineyards and mules, with additional charges per pound for meat and chaff. The back starts an account of payments made for festivals.

In English machine translation

[recto] Additional demand: For clothing, per 1 aroura, 35 myriads (of denarii). For freight charges of sea-going ships, including the commodium given to Athanasios the cornicularius, per 1 aroura, 8 myriads and 2 talents. For items not yet delegated (?) of the 15th and 1st indictions, per 1 aroura, 64 myriads. On vineyard, per 1 aroura, for the two indictions 15 and 1, per 1 aroura, 400 myriads. For mules (?), per 1 aroura, 10 myriads. For recruits' tax, per 1 aroura, 30 myriads, of 2 indictions. Supplement of meat and chaff: For meat, per 1 pound, 26 myriads; for chaff, per 1 pound, 2 myriads; and the arrears of the meat and chaff. [verso] Account of what was given for festivals. […]

The commodium was a fee paid to officials, here to a cornicularius (chief clerk of a governor's staff); 'adelegateuta' seems to mean levies not yet formally assigned by delegatio. The large sums reflect the severe inflation of the denarius in the 4th century.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax Schedule). 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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p.oxy.48.3424

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 357 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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