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Taxpayer-by-taxpayer register of payments for guard levies TM 26660ArsinoitesII

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Fragment of a register listing individual taxpayers by name, father and mother, with the small payments each made toward the upkeep of prison guards, tower guards and the river police. It comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) in the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] [...]...ratam[...]os son of Panther [...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...]...mos son of Panther, mother [...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard [1 obol] [...] [...] Panther son of Satabous, mother [...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...]schis son of Anoubas, mother [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...]...ammos son of Ptolemaios, mother [...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...]...rmous son of Papeis, mother [...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...]...mma son of Peneouris [...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard [...] [...]...eios Amous son of Papeis, mother [...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard [...] [...]...anatos son of Pap[...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...] Onnophris son of O[...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards 3 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...]s, fatherless, mother A[...] [...] for prison guards 1 1/2 obols, for river guard 1 obol [...] [...] son of [...] [for prison guards] 1 1/2 obols, for tower guards [3 obols, for river guard 1 obol] [...] [...]

The payments are merismoi, apportioned levies collected to fund local guard services. 'Tower guards' renders magdolophylakes, watchmen of fortified towers.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines κατ᾿ ἄνδρα- Berichtes über Eingänge der μερισμοί). 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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