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Register of taxpayers with dated tax payments TM 27594Philadelphia (Arsinoites)II

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A register of taxpayers from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, listing each man by parentage and the dated instalments he paid in drachmas, partly toward a merismos (apportioned levy), each entry signed off by an official. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

27 Satabous son of Phanomgeus son of Phaesis, mother Taouei daughter of […] Thoth 8 […] 12 drachmas; Tybi 26, 4 drachmas 4 obols 2 chalkoi for the merismos of guards (?) 19; Mecheir 21, 4 drachmas; total 21 drachmas Pachon […] Pha[…] 15, 12 drachmas, guards (?) 20. M[…], I have signed. Amenophis, his brother, of the same mother […] Hathyr 28, 8 drachmas; Tybi 1, 4 drachmas 4 obols 2 chalkoi, merismos of guards (?) 19; 22, 4; Mecheir 29, 4 drachmas; Phamenoth 19, 4 drachmas; Pachon 24, 4 drachmas; Pauni 22, 4 drachmas; Epeiph 23, 4 drachmas; year 10, Thoth 15, 8 drachmas […] […]phamis, I have signed. […]eides son of Sisois son of Hemei, mother Tathsa[…] […] guards (?) 14; Mecheir 3, 12 drachmas; Phamenoth 29, 8 drachmas; Pharmouthi 27, 4 drachmas […] Epeiph 24, 8 drachmas; year 10, Hathyr 2, 4 drachmas 4 obols 2 chalkoi for the merismos of guards (?) 7. M[…], I have signed. […] son of Akous son of Akous, mother Taerieus […] 4 drachmas 4 obols 2 chalkoi for the merismos of guards (?) 19; Pachon 26, 4 drachmas; Pauni 23, 8 drachmas; year 10, Thoth 10 […] 2 […] 14 drachmas; Hathyr 4 […] […], of the same mother, through Ap[…], 18 […] 12 drachmas; Pharmouthi 8, 32 drachmas 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi for the merismos of guards (?) 19; year 10, […] 4 drachmas […] M[…], I have signed. […] son of Eudemos son of Theabennis, mother Samosatos […] 9, 8 drachmas; […] 3, 4 drachmas […] Mecheir 23, 2 chalkoi for the merismos Pharmouthi […]7, 20 drachmas; year 10, Phaophi 5, guards (?) 20 […] […] […]

A merismos was a levy apportioned among taxpayers; the abbreviation 'phyl' is taken here as guards (phylakitai), which is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liste von Steuerzahlern mit Angabe der gezahlten Steuern). 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 · II · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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