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Account of payments for dyke charges and arrears TM 37940OxyrhynchosVI (?)

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A money account from Oxyrhynchus, probably of the 6th century AD, listing gold solidi brought in for dyke maintenance charges and arrears of the 12th to 14th indictions. Payments came through officials such as Philoxenos and Phoibammon and through people from the villages of Tampeti and Spania and the estate.

In English machine translation

[Total] 32 1/2 [solidi], 24 (carats?), from which were brought in through the following persons, as follows: Through Philoxenos, exceptor and supervisor of dykes, for arrears of dykes of the 14th indiction, 3 solidi … Through the people from Tampeti, for arrears of dykes of the 14th indiction, 6 solidi Through the estate (domain) people, for the 14th indiction, for dykes, 3[…] solidi Through the people from Spania, for the 13th ⟨indiction⟩, for dykes, 1[…] solidi Through the people from Tampeti, for dykes of the 13th ⟨indiction⟩, 12 solidi Through Phoibammon, scriniarius and supervisor of dykes, for arrears of his account of the 13th indiction, 14 1/4 (?) solidi Through the same Phoibammon, scriniarius, for the 12th indiction, for dykes, 21 solidi.

"Dykes" (chomata) refers to the dyke-maintenance levy; the exceptor and scriniarius were clerical officials. The fractional and carat figures are partly uncertain, and the individual entries do not obviously match the opening total.

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

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p.oxy.18.2205

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI (?) · Oxyrhynchos

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