One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 4536
Salt-tax population account with levies on hives and geese TM 4536Herakleopolites243 - 217 v.Chr. (?)
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A fragment of a Ptolemaic population and tax account from the Herakleopolite nome, listing numbers of men and women registered for the salt tax with the rates charged, plus levies on hives and geese. A second column mentions police guards and people of privileged 'equal' status.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
[…]
of which, among the cavalrymen (?): 265
amounts in dues: 3,[…]43 drachmas 4 1/2 obols
from the registrations for salt-tax, male persons 6,645 at 4 obols each: 3,770 (?)
female 5,480 at 1 1/2 obols each: total 1,370
total from persons: 1 myriad 1,135 drachmas, 5,140 (?)
from the collection on bee-hives (?): 2,856 at 3 obols each: 1,428
from the collection on geese: 181 at 2 (drachmas?) 2 1/2 obols each: 436 drachmas 3 1/2 obols
[column 2]
police […]
amounts to […]
of which are […]
equal-status […]
and […]
so that […]
equal-status […]
and having been […]
the […]
of the register (?) […]
The word read as 'bee-hives' (zmenon) is uncertain in meaning. 'Isonomoi' were privileged groups taxed at reduced rates; several figures are partly lost, so totals are approximate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Greek salt-tax area record). 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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