Fragment of a financial report
Fragment of an account of receipts and expenses connected to graph� and cheirismos. It seems that this has to do with the payment of taxes.
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Extract on the epistatikon tax owed by the priests of Bakchias TM 28597BacchiasAfter 7 BC
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An extract from the records of the royal scribe's office listing the epistatikon tax owed by the priests of several temples at Bakchias in the Fayum, with arrears from Year 23 of Augustus. The village scribe reported that, since the priests had shrunk to a few, the debt was to be collected from all the villagers jointly.
In English machine translation
From the register of the strategia and other categories of the royal scribe's office for Year 7, among other entries: of the epistatikon
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 of Kialis son of Peteus, priest of Boubastis, and of Peteuris son of Mysthes and the other priests of Soknobrasis, and of Horos son of Pausanias
and the other priests: 1,652 drachmas of silver; and there was added for Year 23 of the god Caesar
31 drachmas 2 1/2 obols of silver, 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 are to be exacted from all the inhabitants of the village on the principle of mutual responsibility, because the priests have dwindled from many to few and are unable to appear.
The epistatikon was a tax paid by priests, apparently for temple supervision. One record dates the text after 7 BC, since it mentions Year 23 of Augustus, but the main records place it in the mid-2nd century AD.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de rapport financier). 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.bacch.24
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