Acknowledgement of debt for apomoira wine owed by a Macedonian cleruch TM 3181Arsinoites

A Macedonian cleruch holding 30 arouras acknowledges to the tax farmers of the apomoira, among them Isidoros, that he owes them the money value of 45 metretai of wine due as apomoira on his vineyard, reckoned at 700 bronze drachmas per metretes, a total of 5 talents 1,500 drachmas. He undertakes to pay it into the royal bank by Mecheir 30 of year 14, plus 30 drachmas for figs, under penalty of half again. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the Ptolemaic period.

In English machine translation

The apomoira was a Ptolemaic tax, nominally a sixth of the produce of vineyards and orchards, collected by tax farmers; here the wine due is converted into a money debt. The acknowledgement of 'receiving' the wine is a formula for turning the obligation into a loan-like debt.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Weindarlehen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.