A tax list from Oxyrhynchos recording payments in drachmas by individuals grouped under the systates Lykios and by villages and hamlets of the Oxyrhynchite nome. Among the payers are craftsmen, a church deacon and a church reader; subtotals and a grand total in talents are given.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
Of Lykios, systates. Of Dositheos.
[…]onas son of Silvanus 1,600 drachmas
Sisois son of Theonas in Teersais 1,600 drachmas
Onnophris son of Sarapion […] 1,600 drachmas
[…] son of Didymos 1,600 drachmas
[…] Galates son of Ptolemaios 1,600 drachmas
[…] Sarmates son of Eudaimon 1,600 drachmas
[…] Olbanos son of Olbanos 1,600 drachmas
[…] Patermouthis son of Pouros 1,600 drachmas
[…]on, leatherworker 1,600 drachmas
[…]tinos
[…]
[…] Didymos called Tekton 1,600 drachmas
[…] Harmiysis son of A[…] 1,600 drachmas
Of Sen[…]is.
Sarapammon and Theodoros 2,000 drachmas
[…] 2,000 drachmas
[…] and Sarmates 800 drachmas
[…] son of Stratonikos 2,000 drachmas
Of Thosbis. Eutropis 2,000 drachmas
Diogenes brother of Papi[…] 2,400 drachmas
Mermertha
Pinoution son of Harachthes 2,400 drachmas
Aniketes, bandy-legged (?) 1,600 drachmas
Apphous, deacon of the church, and his brother 2,400 drachmas
Silvanus son of Dioskoros 1,600 drachmas
Amois son of Sarapammon 1,600 drachmas
Patermouthis 1,600 drachmas
Psois son of Didymos 1,600 drachmas
Of the hamlet of Sarapion.
Patermouthis son of Stephanos and Stephanos 2,400 drachmas
Psois son of Horos 2,000 drachmas
Amois son of Dionysios 2,600 drachmas
6 talents 600 drachmas
Of Isis Tryphonos […]
[Column 2]
Isidoros son of Apion 2,400 drachmas
Of Senekeleu. Hatesis, potter 2,000 drachmas
Besarion in the hamlet of Isidoros 2,400 drachmas
Of Seryphis.
Paulos son of Saras 1,600 drachmas
T[…] 1,600 drachmas
Sarapammon son of Symphoros 2,400 drachmas
Th[…] 1,600 drachmas
Ta[…]
[…]uis 2,400 drachmas
Of Posompous.
[…] 2,400 drachmas
Of Phoboou. Longinus 1,600 drachmas
Horos son of Apollonios 1,600 drachmas
P[…] 1,600 drachmas
Horos […] 1,600 drachmas
Sakaon son of Horos 1,600 drachmas
Of Ophis.
Ploutarchos son of Maria 2,400 drachmas
Of Tampetei. Besarion, reader 1,600 drachmas
Nikias Paradoxos 1,600 drachmas
Sarapammon 1,600 drachmas
Horos son of Hekysis 1,600 drachmas
Hatres son of Hekysis 1,600 drachmas
Patermouthis son of Serenos 1,600 drachmas
Horos son of Theanos 2,400 drachmas
Petros and Paues 2,400 drachmas
in the hamlet of Diogenes
Of Kesmouchis.
Thonis son of Chairemon 1,600 drachmas
Total 12 talents 1,400 drachmas
[…] talents 4,800 drachmas
A systates was a local official responsible for collecting levies from a district. The large drachma sums reflect the inflated currency of the 4th century AD; 'Paradoxos' and 'skellos' may be nicknames..
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax List). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.