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Contract of surety for the farmer of the tax on four-footed animals TM 2823Oxyrhynchos15. Aug. 257 v.Chr.

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A contract of surety drawn up at Oxyrhynchus in year 29 of Ptolemy II, in which someone guarantees payment connected with the one-twenty-fourth tax on four-footed animals of the city. The tax had been farmed from Apollonios the dioiketes, and the guarantor's property is pledged, with enforcement as for crown debts.

In English machine translation

In the reign of Ptolemy son of Ptolemy Soter, year 29, when Antiochos son of Kebbas was priest of Alexander and of the Sibling Gods, and Demonike daughter of Philon was basket-bearer of Arsinoe Philadelphos, on Pauni 24, in the city of the Oxyrhynchi above Memphis. Surety for payment […] […] of the Oxyrhynchite nome, of the tax of one twenty-fourth on four-footed animals of the city of the Oxyrhynchi, as ⟦he farmed⟧ he contracted, for the protection of the man who farmed the one-twenty-fourth tax from Apollonios the dioiketes for year 29, Pas…onis (?) […] on all his property, of indisputable drachmas […] and the execution shall be as for debts to the crown.

Apollonios the dioiketes was the chief finance minister of Ptolemy II. The one-twenty-fourth tax was a levy on livestock collected by a tax farmer who bought the contract from the state.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Contract of Surety). 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 · 15. Aug. 257 v.Chr. · Oxyrhynchos

βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου Σωτῆρος ἔτους κθ ἐφʼ ἱερέως Ἀντιόχου τοῦ Κέββα Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ θεῶν Ἀδελφῶν κανηφόρου Ἀρσινόης Φιλαδέλφου Δημονίκης τῆς Φίλωνος μηνὸς Παῦνι κδ ἐν Ὀξυρύγχων πόλει τῆι ὕπερθε Μέμφεως. ἔγγυος εἰςἔκτισιν […] [… ? lines lost …] Ὀξυρυγχίτου τεταρτο…