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Tax account for imperial estates including vineyards of Marcus Antonius Pallas TM 25496unbekanntI

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A first-century AD tax account listing land taxes (geometria, apomoira, eparourion, naubion, olive transport) owed on an imperial estate once linked to Tiberius and on vineyard holdings of Marcus Antonius Pallas, with earlier owners listed. It gives areas in arouras of vineyard, garden, reed and olive land and the resulting sums in drachmas.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] Taxes of the estate called […] of Tiberius Caesar Augustus […] vineyard […] winepress 1/4, fig orchard (?) bearing […], myrobalanus […] 52 1/4, Greek reed bearing 1/4, olive grove bearing 1, vegetable land 1. For geometria: vineyard 59 1/4 arouras, Greek reed 1/4, total 63 1/4 (?) arouras at 50 drachmas, 3162 drachmas 3 obols; garden 1 aroura, vegetable land 1, total 2 at 25 drachmas, 50 drachmas; total for geometria 3212 drachmas 3 obols; and for the apomoira, vineyard 59 1/4 at 10 drachmas, 592 drachmas 3 obols; garden 1 aroura, 5 drachmas; total 597 drachmas 3 obols; and for the eparourion, vineyard 65 1/4 at 6 drachmas 4 obols, 435 drachmas; and for the transport of olives, olive grove 1 aroura, 210 copper drachmas, in value 4 1/2 obols; and for the naubion, vineyard 192 at 3 obols, 96 drachmas. Total for the estate: 4341 drachmas 4 1/2 obols. Of Marcus Antonius Pallas, formerly of Gallia Polla, and formerly of Lucius Septimius: 6 vineyards of revenue (?), formerly of Eros and Charmos, 57 arouras, of which newly planted 48 1/4, winepress 2 1/4, total 50 1/2 arouras; and of Philoxenos son of Theon, 6 arouras, of which newly planted 2 1/2, winepress and equipment 2. [Fragment B] […] […]nos […] and formerly of Ammonios the sitologos, newly planted […] and formerly of Sotas son of Sotas, newly planted […] and formerly of Timotheos son of Philonikos, 22 arouras […] and formerly of Mendeios son of Theomnestos, […] arouras […] and vegetable land 3 arouras, and formerly of Aniketos son of Aniketos, 10 arouras, of which newly planted 2. Total assessed: 376 1/2 1/32 arouras, of which newly planted 208 1/2 1/4, […] and vegetable land 3 arouras, pottery 1/2, winepress and equipment 4 arouras, total 216 1/4, Greek reed bearing 2 1/2, olive grove bearing 1.

Pallas was the powerful freedman of Claudius; his Egyptian estates later passed to the emperor. Geometria, apomoira, eparourion and naubion are specific Egyptian land and produce taxes with no exact English equivalents.

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 · I

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