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Sworn declaration by a gnoster identifying cultivators liable for taxes TM 22862Pois (Hermopolites)5. Mai 346

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A sworn declaration by Aurelius Apollon son of Horion, gnoster (village informant) of Pois, to Flavius Olympodoros, praepositus of the 1st pagus of the Hermopolite nome, identifying the cultivators responsible for taxes on unregistered holdings. It lists persons with amounts of wine and chaff due, dated 5 May 346.

In English machine translation

To Flavius Olympodoros also called Asynkritios, praepositus of the 1st pagus of the Hermopolite nome, from Aurelius Apollon son of Horion, gnoster of the village of Pois of the same pagus, for the 1st indiction. Since you inquire who the cultivators of the unregistered (?) names are for the same indiction, so that through them the payment of the public taxes may be made, having necessarily drawn them up by means of a list, with all truthfulness I submit to your diligence, swearing the divine and venerable oath of our all-conquering masters the Augusti, that those written below are the cultivators and that no charge is brought against anyone; or if I swear falsely may I be liable to the divine oath and to the danger concerning it; and having been asked the formal question I agreed. They are as follows: Names: the heirs of Pinoution, wine 234 xestai, chaff 400 pounds, through Isidoros son of Sarapion, being from the Hermopolite nome; […]on, chaff 480 pounds, through Athenodoros and Horion, landowners; […] Olympios son of Alexandros, chaff 120 pounds; […] In the year after the consulship of Flavii Amantius and Albinus, the most illustrious, Pachon 10. I, Aurelius Apollon, […], swore the divine oath as stated above.

A gnoster was a local official who vouched for the identity and liabilities of villagers. The 'asystata onomata' were tax entries without a recognized responsible party, here assigned to named cultivators.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5. Mai 346 · Pois (Hermopolites)

Φλαυίῳ Ὀλυμποδώρῳ τῷ καὶ Ἀσυνκριτίῳ πραιποσίτῳ α πάγου νομοῦ Ἑρμουπολείτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίου Ἀπόλλωνος Ὡρίωνος γνωστῆρος κώμης Πώεως τοῦ αὐτοῦ πάγου α ἰνδικτίονος. ἐπιζητοῦντί σοι τίνες εἴησαν γεωργοὶ τῶν ἀσυστάτων ὀνομάτων ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ἰνδικτίονος πρὸς τὸ διʼ αὐτῶν ἡ εἰσφορὰ γένητα…