Fragmentary account of payments, apparently taxes, received from village assistants and komarchs in the Oxyrhynchite nome, recorded in talents, myriads of denarii and gold solidi. Many entries were struck through by the scribe. It dates to the 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] … which I received […]
[…] … and … […]
[…]nos son of Chairemon … […]
[…] from Zoilos, assistant, … […] … son of Sarapion, talents … […]
from Theodoros, assistant of the village of Takona, talents […]
⟦2. Zoilos son of Aetios and Leukadios, 20 talents⟧
⟦the same likewise, 4 talents; expenditure (?) 3,605 myriads⟧
⟦3. Zoilos son of Makrobios, 2 talents; expenditure (?) 300 myriads⟧
⟦[…] of Didymos, assistant, … for 20 talents and 420 myriads … […]⟧
⟦[…] for Didyminos … 816 (?) myriads …⟧
⟦[…] to Epimachos, cavalry soldier (?) […] 870 myriads⟧
⟦[…] 1 talent from At[…] … […] talents […]⟧
⟦[…] from (?) Theodoros […]⟧
⟦[…] talents […]⟧
⟦[…] … […]⟧
⟦[… 1 line lost …]⟧
[verso]
[… 1 line lost …]
[…] the gold, of weight […]
[…] … komarch and […]
[…] … and … received the expenditure (?), 55 myriads, 8 solidi … […]
⟦[…] 3,275 myriads⟧
⟦[…] likewise through the same komarchs⟧
⟦[…] received the expenditure (?), 300 myriads, 2 solidi⟧
[…] of the price … of Tryphon, through Timotheos, assistant, to
[…] of Martyrios, goldsmith, … 6 solidi and 900 myriads
[…] likewise I received from Koureus, assistant, 1 talent and
The abbreviation ἀναλ (probably 'expenditure') and 'myriads' (units of 10,000 denarii) reflect 4th-century inflationary accounting; the sense of ἀναλ is uncertain. Many lines are cancelled in the original.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rechnung über Steuern). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.