A fragmentary official account of tax revenues, listing sums collected under heads such as poll tax, dyke tax, temple taxes and various special taxes, with subtotals for a main account and a five-month account up to Pachon. The grand total is of money collected under one Harpokration; it dates to the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD, possibly from the Mendesian nome.
In English machine translation
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[… ? lines lost …]
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[…] animals 425 drachmas […]
[…] to the overseers […] of overseers and others 1,606 drachmas 2 obols …
Total of the administration (dioikesis): 5 talents 2,415 drachmas 1 1/2 obols 1 chalkous
Rent of revenue land: 609 drachmas 4 1/2 obols
Poll tax (laographia): 16 talents 4,255 drachmas
Dyke tax: 3 talents 746 drachmas 2 obols 2 chalkoi
Temple taxes: 16 talents 55[…] drachmas 2 obols 3 chalkoi
Of the special taxes (eide):
Linen tax: 1 talent 1,804 drachmas 3 obols
Tax on contract-writing: 497 drachmas … chalkoi …
Tax on the breeding of geese and birds: … drachmas …
Pig tax: 2[…] drachmas … 1/2 obol
Six-drachma tax on donkeys: 93[…] drachmas […]
Pasture tax and others: 2,… drachmas
Trade tax on weavers: 3 talents 3,424 drachmas 5 obols […]
On craftsmen: 2,180 drachmas 4 obols
Tax for the record office and writing office: 46… drachmas […]
…-guard tax: 1,984 drachmas …[…]
… and market-supervision tax: 2 talents […]
Pelochikon tax: … talents …
[…] of the military cleruchs: […] drachmas
Total of special taxes: 12 talents […] drachmas
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Twenty-drachma and forty-drachma tax …[…] … drachmas […]
Arithmetikon of the katoikoi: 5 talents 4[…] drachmas […]
Land-survey tax: 13 talents 52[…] drachmas […]
Total of the account: 134 talents 75 drachmas […]
And through the five-month account up to Pachon 2…[…]
Administration: 6 talents 5[…] drachmas […]
Rent of revenue land: […]
Poll tax: 15[…] drachmas […]
Dyke tax: 4 talents 1,367 drachmas […]
Temple taxes: 18 talents 488[…] drachmas […]
Of the special taxes:
Tax on contract-writing: 2,… drachmas […]
Six-drachma tax on donkeys: 5 drachmas
Pig tax: 22 drachmas
Pasture tax: … drachmas […]
Linen tax: 12[…] drachmas […]
Total of special taxes: […] drachmas
Twenty-drachma and forty-drachma tax: 3 talents 2[…] drachmas […]
Arithmetikon of the katoikoi: … drachmas […]
Land-survey tax: 26 talents […]
Total of the account: 60 talents 34[…] drachmas […]
Total of the sums collected under Harpokration: 194 talents […] drachmas
Found at Oxyrhynchus but the provenance of the account is tentatively given as the Mendesian nome. Several tax names (pelochikon, arithmetikon) have no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Taxation). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.