Excerpt of a record concerning tax rebate
Extract from report of remission of taxes
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28119
Extract from a record on arrears of the priests' epistatikon tax at Bakchias TM 28119Bakchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptII A.D.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Extract from an official record concerning the epistatikon tax owed by the priests of several temples at Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome. The village scribe reports that, since the priests had dwindled to a few and could not pay, the arrears of 1,826 drachmas 3 obols were to be collected from all the villagers jointly.
In English machine translation
From the document submitted to the epistrategy and other categories of the royal scribe's office, year 7, after other matters: of the epistatikon (tax) of the priests of the village of Bakchias, roll 1, sheet 68: of Diodoros son of Horos and Harthotes son of Onnophris, priests of Isis, and Kialeus son of Peteus, priest of Boubastis, and Peteuris son of Mysthes, and the remaining priests of Soknobraisis, and Horos son of Pasanis and the remaining priests, 1,652 silver drachmas; and there was added for year 23 of Caesar the god 31 silver drachmas 2 1/2 obols, total 1,683 drachmas 2 1/2 obols; additional charges 143 drachmas 1/2 obol, total 1,826 drachmas 3 obols.
Concerning which the village scribe reported that the amounts owed were to be exacted from all the inhabitants of the village by mutual guarantee, because the priests had dwindled from a large number to a few and were unable to hold out.
The epistatikon was a tax paid by priests, originally for the temple overseer (epistates). The amounts are partly restored; the 1,652 drachmas figure is reconstructed from the totals.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Auszug eines Protokolls über Steuernachlass). 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.lund.4.7
ἐξ ὑποκειμένου ἐπιστρατηγίᾳ καὶ ἄλλων εἰδῶν βασιλικῆς γραμματείας ζ ἔτους μεθʼ ἕτερα· ἐπιστατικοῦ ἱερέων κώμης Βακχιάδος α τόμου κολλήματος ξη Διοδώρου Ὥρου καὶ Ἁρθώτου Ὀννώφρεως ἱερέων Ἴσιδος καὶ Κιαλείους Πετέως ἱερέως Βουβάστεως καὶ Πετεύρεως Μύσθου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἱερέων Σοκον…