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Sworn declaration of public taxes paid TM 39274HermopolisVII - VIII

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A sworn declaration (katagraphē) listing public taxes paid in gold solidi and grain, including gold taxes, a commuted grain levy for the embolē and the diagraphon tax. Two men, one the son of Viktor and Senouthes from Hermopolis, swear by God Almighty that they have omitted nothing, and Kollouthos signs for them because they were illiterate. It dates from the early Arab period at Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

† These are the public taxes paid by Pak[…] […] For the proportional share (?) of the 1,000 thousands, 6,000,000 (?) […] For gold taxes, 1 1/2 (?) on the canon, 9 solidi 21 1/4 carats […] […] for gold taxes, 1 1/2 (?) of the canon […] […] of the place, for the commutation into money, 1/2; for the grain embolē, 1 1/2 artabas, of the 10th […] [For the proportional share of the] 500 thousands, 8 solidi 18 1/2 carats […] [For the 6 carats], 3 solidi 6 1/2 carats […] [For] the diagraphon, [5 solidi] 12 carats […] […] son of Viktor […] and Senouthes from Hermopolis […] […] of the public taxes, declaring by God the Almighty […] […] having omitted anything in this declaration […] […] on the charge of perjury. † Kollouthos son of P[…] […] I wrote on their behalf, as they do not know letters.

The figures and fractions in the account lines are damaged and their reading is uncertain. The diagraphon was a poll-tax-like levy of the early Arab administration, and the embolē was the grain tax shipped by river.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Καταγραφή d’età araba). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VII - VIII · Hermopolis

† εἰσὶ τὰσυντελούμενα δημόσια παρὰ Πακ…[…]…εγρ… […] ὑπὲρἀναλογίας τῶν Α χιλιάδων ,000,000 […] ὑπὲρχρυσικῶν α 𐅵 κανόνος επὶ νομίσματα θ κεράτια κα δ […] […]…εμ… ὑπὲρ χρυσικῶν α 𐅵 κανόνος […] […] τόπου ὑπὲρ ἀπαργυρισμοῦ 𐅵 ἐμβολῆς σίτου ἀρτάβαι α 𐅵 τοῦ ι […] ὑπὲρ ἀναλογίας τῶν φ χιλ…