Undertaking to pay a one-third share of village taxes TM 36800Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)511 - 512 (?)

Fragment of a written undertaking (epistalma) from Aphrodito in which the signatories pledge to pay, according to a one-third share, the regular and extraordinary public taxes on property, following the village tax registers from the fifth indiction onward. It is signed by Aurelius Victor son of Constantius and, it seems, his brother Aurelius Ioannes.

In English machine translation

An epistalma was a written undertaking given for the security of the treasury, here assuming tax liability for a share of property. The figure 'three hundred and sixtieth' at the start probably belongs to a fractional share or quantity whose context is lost.

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