A fragmentary account of money taxes from the Arsinoite nome, totalling sums due to the state treasury (dioikesis) and to sacred revenues. It lists the kollybos exchange surcharge and the apomoira tax with amounts in talents, drachmas and obols. It dates to the 2nd century.
In English machine translation
Of various taxes; of the separated revenue […]
86 … (total) […]
of the remaining taxes […]
Total together for the dioikesis […]
10 talents 1,589 drachmas …[…]
of the exchange surcharge (kollybos) 1,733 drachmas 2 obols, bronze […]
of the sacred apomoira 5,759 …[…]
of the apomoira 4,331 drachmas 3 obols […]
(total) 4,704 drachmas …[…]
Total of the dioikesis and the sacred (revenue) 15 talents 44[…] drachmas […]
The dioikesis was the central state treasury; the apomoira was a tax originally levied on vineyards and orchards for the cults. The century in the records is not specified as BC or AD.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Compte d’impôts en argent). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.