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Register of taxes on vineyards, gardens and olive groves held by magistrates TM 31273ArsinoitesAnfang III

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Fragment of a tax register from the Arsinoite nome listing landholders, many of them former town magistrates (exegetes, gymnasiarchs, prytaneis, agoranomoi), with the areas of their vineyards, gardens and olive groves and the taxes owed on them, such as geometria, naubion and the one-eighth tax. It dates to the early 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

… Herakl[…] 1 aroura …[…] Geminus also called Isidoros […] of garden land 1/32 1/64 aroura, in kind (?) 32 drachmas 4 obols, total 7 1/4 1/64 arouras […] naubion 3 drachmas 3 1/2 obols, one-eighth tax …[…] Gaius, former exegetes, of vineyard 5 1/2 1/8 arouras, in kind (?) […]…[…] total 14 1/2 1/8 arouras, in kind (?) 200 drachmas, geometria 538 drachmas 1 obol, naubion […] Demetrios also called Asklepiades, magistrate in office […] in kind (?) 264 drachmas 2 obols, of garden land 73 2/3 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/64 arouras …[…]…[…] geometria 3351 drachmas 2 obols, naubion 51 drachmas 1/2 obol, one-eighth tax … drachmas […] Didymos, former gymnasiarch, former prytanis, of olive groves 23 arouras, in kind (?) …[…] Hermeias, former agoranomos, former prytanis, of vineyard 11 1/4 arouras […]…[…] […] total 22 2/3 1/16 1/32 arouras, in kind (?) [drachmas] […] […] former gymnasiarch, son of Pankras, through […] […] geometria 60 drachmas 1 obol, naubion 20 drachmas 1 obol […] […] former exegetes, at Moeris, of vineyard […] […]… 1/8, in kind (?) 271 drachmas …[…] […] 1 1/2 obols, naubion 20 drachmas 5 obols […] [… 1 line lost …]

Geometria (a land-survey tax) and naubion (a tax connected with dyke works) were levied on land under orchard and vine; the abbreviation εἰδ(ῶν), rendered 'in kind (?)', is of uncertain meaning here.

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.2.572

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

… Ἡρακλ[…] ἄρουρα α …[…] Γέμεινος ὁ καὶ Ἰσίδωρος[…] παραδείσων ἀρούρης λβ ξδ, εἰδῶν δραχμαὶ λβ τετρώβολον, γίνονται ἄρουραι ζ δ ξδ […] ναυβίου δραχμαὶ γ ὀβολοὶ γ 𐅵, ὀγδόης …[…] Γάιος ἐξηγητεύσας ἀμπελώνων ἀρούρας ε 𐅵 η εἰδῶν […]…[…] γίνονται ἄρουραι ιδ 𐅵 η εἰδῶν δραχμαὶ σ, γεωμετ…