One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28637
Account of wheat dues on catoecic, vine and imposed land TM 28637Euhemeria (Arsinoites)II
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A short tax account in wheat listing payments due on catoecic land, vine land and land assigned by compulsory allocation (epibole), naming Charition daughter of Deios and Herakleides, with the supplementary charges added to each amount. It comes from Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
Charition daughter of Deios, catoecic land, 2 2/3 arouras: 2 2/3 1/8 artabas of wheat, additional charges 1/3 1/12; Herakleides, vine land: 1 artaba of wheat, 1/8 additional charges 1/4 artaba of wheat; imposed land (epibole), 1/3 aroura: 2 1/12 artabas of wheat, additional charges 1/3 artaba of wheat.
The fractions are uncertain because the abbreviated numerals can be read in more than one way. The prosmetroumena were additional measures charged on top of the basic grain tax, and epibole was land assigned to cultivators by compulsory allocation.
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.fay.263v
Χαρίτιον Δείου κατοίκων ἄρουραι β γ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι β γ η προσμετρούμενα γ ιβ, Ἡρακλείδης ἀμπελίτιδος πυροῦ ἀρτάβη α, η προσμετρούμενα πυροῦ ἀρτάβης δ, ἐπιβολῆς ἀρούρας γ πυροῦ ἀρτάβαι β ιβ, προσμετρούμενα πυροῦ ἀρτάβης γ.