Register of payers of salt tax
List of payers of salt tax (halike) in the village of Berenikis Thesmophorou.
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Register of salt-tax payers at Berenikis Thesmophorou TM 5435Berenikis Thesmophorou181/180 or 157/156 B.C.
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A fragmentary register of salt-tax payers compiled by Orseus, village scribe of Berenikis Thesmophorou and Argaiou Ibion in the Fayum, listing men with their wives, sons and brothers. Greek settlers, including hundred-aroura cleruchs, appear alongside Egyptian families.
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Year 25. From Orseus, village scribe of Berenikis Thesmophorou and Argaiou Ibion, (register of) salt tax, by individual and by ethnic group.
⟦Berenikis Thesmophorou⟧
⟦(Hundred-aroura men): Kallias son of Kallistratos⟧
⟦Mysta, wife⟧
⟦Kallias, son⟧
⟦[…] Noumenios son of Noumenios⟧
⟦[…] Isidora, wife⟧
⟦[…] Asklepiades⟧
[…]
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(Hundred-aroura man) A[…]
(Hundred-aroura man) Kal[lias son of Kallistratos]
Mys[ta, wife] […]
Kall[ias, son] […]
Noum[enios son of Noumenios] […]
Isido[ra], wife
Askl[epiades] […]
Eunou[s] […]
Diony[sios] […]
Oit[…]
Nikol[aos] […]
Pha…[…]
Pto[lemaios] […]
…[…]
Herak[lei…] […]
[…]
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Sarapion, the brother
Thaubastis, wife
Apollonios […]
Didyme, wife
Diognetos […]
Sarapias, wife
Ptolemaios […]
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Haryotes son of Teos
Soeris, wife
Harphousis son of Achel[…]
Tsenaryotis, wife
Petosorapis …[…]
Tan…is, wife
⟦Imouthes …[…]⟧
[…]
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[…], wife
Ptolemaios
Tbelles, wife
Phanesis son of Pemroeris
Pnepheros, the brother
Pbesis, the brother
Tkonnos, wife
Petos son of Pe…[…]
Hestieus […]
Petermouthis, the brother
Patis son of Teos
Total 31 …[…]
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The salt tax (halike) was a Ptolemaic poll tax levied on adults, here recorded 'by individual and by ethnic group'. 'Hundred-aroura men' were military settlers holding 100-aroura allotments.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Register of payers of salt tax). 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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[fragment 1] [column 1] Ἔτους κε. παρ' Ὀρσέους κωμογραμματέως Βερενικίδος Θεσμοφόρου καὶ Ἀργαίου Ἰβιῶνος ἁλικῆς κατʼ ἄνδρα καὶ κατʼ ἔθνος. [… ? lines lost …] [column 2] ἑκατονταρούρων Ἀ[…] ἑκατονταρούρων Καλλίας Καλλιστράτου Μύστα γυνή[…] Καλλίας υἱός[…] Νουμήνιος Νουμηνίου[…] Ἰσ…