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Salt-tax registration of the household of Leptines, a Pisidian soldier TM 3229Pharbaithos? (Arsinoites)
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A household declaration for the salt tax listing the soldier Leptines, a Pisidian of Krateros' unit, with his wife, five children and numerous slaves, some located at the Heroon near the city. It comes from the Ptolemaic Fayum (Arsinoite nome), possibly Pharbaithos, and is dated to a regnal year 15.
In English machine translation
[Fragment 1]
Registration for the salt tax.
Leptines, Pisidian, of the troop of Krateros, dimoirites, and his wife Hedyle, and sons Glaukias, Moirikon, Nikandros, Theophilos, and daughter Baia: […]6 drachmas.
And slaves:
Leukon, Daphnis,
Chrysippos, Emporion,
Styppax, Habron. Total 13, total 6 1/2.
Drimakos, and in the Heroon
Apparton, the one near the city,
Pyrrhias. Slaves:
Artemidoros, Totoes,
[…]abdaios, Semtheus,
[…] another Semtheus,
[…]
[Fragment 2]
Year 15, M[…]
[…]
A dimoirites was a soldier receiving double-portion (two-thirds) pay, a junior rank in the Hellenistic army. The salt tax (halike) was a Ptolemaic poll tax assessed per person, hence the counts of persons and the sum in drachmas.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Liste de noms propres). 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.lille.1.27
[Fr1] ἀπογραφὴ εἰς τὰ ἁλικά Λεπτίνης Πισίδης τῶν Κρατέρου διμοιρίτης καὶ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Ἡδύλη καὶ υἱοὶ Γλαυκίας, Μοιρίκων, Νίκανδρος, Θεόφιλος καὶ θυγάτηρ Βαία δραχμαὶ …ϛ. καὶ παῖδες· Λεύκων Δάφνις Χρύσιππος Ἐμπόριον Στύππαξ Ἅβρον γίνονται ιγ γίνονται ϛ 𐅵 Δρίμακος καὶ ἐν τῶι Ἡρώωι Ἀπ…