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A schedule of tax rates from fourth-century Oxyrhynchus, listing charges in talents for various state requisitions such as arms-making, meat, chaff, shipbuilding, mules, boats and freight, and military clothing, mostly assessed per aroura of land or per pound.
The rates reflect the heavy inflation of the 4th century, when charges were reckoned in talents of silver drachmas. The meaning of 'platypegia' (literally 'flat-built things', probably barges or rafts) is uncertain, and the list breaks off at the entry for wheat and barley.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax Schedule). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ὁπλοποιΐας ἀρούρῃ α τάλαντα ζ κρέως λίτρᾳ α τάλαντα λδ ἀχύρου λίτρᾳ α τάλαντον α Β πλοιοποΐας ἀρούρῃ α τάλαντα νδ βουρδώνων ἀρούρῃ α τάλαντα κζ πλατυπηγίων καὶ ὑπὲρ ναύλων ἀρούρῃ α τάλαντα δ ἐσθῆτος χλαμυδίων καὶ στιχαρίων καὶ παλλίων καὶ στιχαρίων λινῶν ἀρούρῃ α τάλαντα π σιτοκρ…
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