Taxation
Of taxes collected on a single day
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28348
Extract from a tax collector's daybook for Sento TM 28348Sento (Oxyrhynchites)Roman CE late ii-early iii [BPG]
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Fragment of an account of taxes collected, drawn from the daily register of Apion, collector of money taxes, for the village of Sento in the Oxyrhynchite nome. It lists sums paid for a land tax (epharourion) and a dovecote tax for the current 4th year, late 2nd or early 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
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From the daybook of Apion, collector of money taxes, Sento: epharourion of the current 4th year, 250 drachmas 2 obols; pechismos of dovecotes of the same 4th year, 47 drachmas 1 obol 2 chalkoi; total […]
The epharourion was a tax levied per aroura of land; pechismos of dovecotes was a charge assessed on dovecotes, probably by measurement. The opening six lines are lost and the total is not preserved.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Taxation). 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.oxy.6.981
[… 6 lines lost …] ἐξ ἐφημερίδος Ἀπίωνος πράκτορος ἀργυρικῶν Σεντὼ ἐπαρουρίου τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος δ ἔτους δραχμαὶ σν διώβολον, πηχισμοῦ περιστερώνων τοῦ αὐτοῦ δ ἔτους δραχμαὶ μζ ὀβολὸς χαλκοῖ β, γίνονται …