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Account of tax receipts from Arsinoite villages and divisions TM 31231Arsinoites

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Fragmentary account of tax revenues in money from villages and divisions of the Arsinoite nome, with totals for taxes such as the monodesmia of hay, the histonarchia, the weavers' tax and the oil tax. A grand total of 31 talents is recorded as paid, apparently involving a prytanis of Alexandria.

In English machine translation

[column 1] […] [column 2] […] […] of […]dos, 276 drachmas of Psinis, 68 drachmas of Tebetny, 300 drachmas of Busiris, 100 drachmas of Apollonias, 80 drachmas total 2,900 drachmas total for the monodesmia of hay: 1 talent 644 drachmas […] of the division of Herakleides […] […] [column 3] […] total […] of the nome, 2 talents 813 drachmas 4 obols Diphro[…] of the places […], 100 drachmas division of Herakleides […] [column 4] […] of Kerkeesis, 3[.] drachmas of Lysimachis, [.]4 drachmas total 364 drachmas total for the histonarchia: 3,670 drachmas for the weavers' tax (gerdiakon) of the metropolis through Chairemon son of Asemos of the nome likewise division of Herakleides of Dinnis, […] drachmas division of Themistos […] [column 5] […] […] the lessee of the division of Themistos, through the same, 3,508 drachmas division of Polemon likewise through the same, 2,700 drachmas total […] of the oil tax […], 1 talent 1,096 drachmas […] of the collection […] [column 6] […] […] of the most splendid city of the Alexandrians, prytanis in office, 3 talents grand total 31 talents 4,790 drachmas 4 obols which were also paid to the […] […] […]

Monodesmia of hay was a levy on bundles of fodder, and histonarchia a tax connected with looms or weaving; neither has an exact English equivalent. Several readings and figures are damaged.

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.

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bgu.3.753

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites

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