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Account of transport and other charges for the village of Takona TM 31774Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, EgyptIIIrd century A.D.

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

An account of money payments charged to the village of Takona in the Oxyrhynchite nome, covering provisions for barge sailors, crown-tax dues, camel-drivers and barley freight. Each item is followed by a smaller surcharge called eremon, and a total is given. It dates to the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[1] Takona. For provisions (opsonion) of the sailors of the flat-bottomed barges, through Kronion, superintendent: 940 drachmas, for eremon: 94 drachmas, for crown-tax dues: 3 talents 3,725 drachmas, for eremon: 2,148 drachmas, for camel-drivers: 680 drachmas, [2] for eremon: 66 drachmas, for freight of barley: 1,631 drachmas, for eremon: 164 drachmas, ⟦total 4 talents 348 drachmas⟧ total 4 talents 3,448 drachmas.

The surcharge 'eremon', roughly 10% of each item, has no clear English equivalent and may relate to the desert-guard tax (eremophylakia). The scribe deleted an earlier, incorrect total.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Accounts of Transport). 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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Accounts of transport

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Oxy. XIV 1652 · IIIrd century A.D. · Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt

These two accounts, written by the same hand and following the same formula, relate to two villages in the Lower toparchy of the nome. The names of the villages preced as headings, and below are entered various sums for barges, desert dues, crown tax, wages for camelmen, each of …

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p.oxy.14.1652B

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

[1] Τακόνα. ὀψωνίου ναυτῶν πλατυπηγίων διὰ Κρονίωνος ἐπιμελητοῦ δραχμαὶ ϡμ, ἐρήμων δραχμαὶ ϙδ, στεφανωτικῶν τάλαντα γ δραχμαὶ Γψκε, ἐρήμων δραχμαὶ Βρμη, δρομαδαρίων δραχμαὶ χπ, [2] ἐρήμων δραχμαὶ ξϛ, ναύλου κριθῆς δραχμαὶ Αχλα, ἐρήμων δραχμαὶ ρξδ, γίνονται τάλαντα δ δραχμαὶ Γυμη.