One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28036

Account of apomoira and eparourion taxes on vineyard land TM 28036unbekanntII

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Fragment of a tax account recording land areas in arouras, among them vineyard land, with the amounts owed for the apomoira and eparourion taxes plus the customary additional charges, totalled in drachmas and talents. It dates to the 2nd century.

In English machine translation

[… 6 lines lost …] … 9 1/2 arouras, for apomoira 95 drachmas, additional charges 19 (?) […] drachmas Total […] 170 drachmas, additional charges 24 drachmas 4 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi […] 2,455 drachmas 3 1/2 obols, total 3 talents 8[…] drachmas […] Vineyard, 13 3/4 arouras, for apomoira 137 drachmas 3 obols […] for eparourion 91 drachmas 4 obols, additional charges 7 drachmas 2 chalkoi […] additional charges 2,496 […]

The apomoira was a tax on vineyards and orchards, and the eparourion a tax charged per aroura; the prosdiagraphomena were surcharges paid on top of the main tax. The records give only the century, without saying whether it is BC or AD.

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.

p.lond.2.374

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II

[… 6 lines lost …] … ἄρουραι θ 𐅵 , ἀπομοίρας δραχμὰς ϙε, προσδιαγραφομένων δραχμὰς ιθ[…] γίνονται δραχμαὶ ρο, προσδιαγραφομένων δραχμαὶ κδ ὀβολοὶ δ 𐅵 χαλκοῖ β […] δραχμαὶ Βυνε ὀβολοὶ γ 𐅵, γίνονται τάλαντα γ δραχμαὶ η[…][…] ἀμπέλου ἄρουραι ιγ 𐅵 δ, ἀπομοίρας δραχμὰς ρλζ τριώβολον […