Fragment of an official account of wheat dues (phoroi) from the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome, connected with Apollonios, former acting strategos, for year 25 of Commodus. It lists large quantities of wheat in artabas, including amounts declared as measured in Mesore.
In English machine translation
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[…] of the division of Herakleides
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[…] Apollonios, former acting strategos
[…] for the rents of year 25
[…] of Commodus Antoninus Caesar
[…]… wheat, artabas 812,862 1/2 1/3 1/24 1/48 1/96
[…] artabas 54,841 1/24
[…] artabas 2,930
[…] artabas 1,375 1/2 1/3 1/24
[…] artabas 58 1/12
[…] artabas 1
[…] artabas 12 1/12
[…] were declared to have been measured
[…]… Mesore, wheat, artabas 223,581 1/3 1/12
[…] artabas 24,589 1/2 1/48
[…] 66 1/2 1/4
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The myriad figures are read as 81 myriads (810,000) plus 2,862 etc.; the first figure is 812,862 artabas. 'Phoroi' here denotes rents or dues in kind on land, not a general tax.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax Account). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.