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Account of gold payments for the crown tax TM 33774unbekanntIV

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An account of payments in gold toward the crown tax (stephanikon), including the quinquennial levy and earlier arrears collected through one Sarapammon. It lists assessments in pounds and ounces converted at rates of 5 and 7 into grammata of gold, for persons including Dionysios and Serenos. Written in Egypt in the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] Dionysios, of the quinquennial crown tax, 47 pounds; […] of rate 5, gold, 16 grammata […] of the crown tax, 3 pounds 1 ounce, of rate 5, gold, 1 gramma […] of the earlier crown taxes that were extorted (?) through Sarapammon […] of the crown tax, 2 pounds 10 ounces, of rate 5, gold, 1 1/6 grammata […] of the crown tax, the same, 14 pounds 1 ounce, of rate 5, gold, 3 1/2 1/24 grammata […] total together, gold, 21 2/3 (?) 1/24 grammata […] and Serenos […] of the quinquennial crown tax, 47 pounds, of rate 7, 6 2/3 grammata […] of the crown tax, 3 pounds 1 ounce, of rate 7, gold, 3 1/64 1/12 (?) grammata […] of the earlier (crown tax) through Sarapammon […] of the crown tax, 2 pounds 10 ounces, of rate 7, gold, 3 1/24 grammata […] of the crown tax, 4 pounds 1 ounce, for rate 7, gold, 2 1/4 grammata Total together, gold, 9 3/4 (?) 1/64 grammata

The stephanikon was originally a 'crown gold' levy offered to emperors, here a regular quinquennial tax; 'gramma' is a small weight unit of gold (a scruple). Several fraction symbols are uncertain in reading and value.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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.lond.3.966

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

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