Account, Roman CE i-ii [CBW]
List of names, with professions, etc., with charges or payments
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Account of tax payments by residents of town quarters for two years TM 832139Roman CE i-ii [CBW]
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An account listing men, grouped by town quarters, each paying 13 drachmas plus a 3-obol surcharge for year 19 and the same amount for year 20. The quarter names (Thesmophorion, Linen-weavers, Boutaphion, Bithynians and other places, Macedonians) are typical of Arsinoe in the Fayum, Roman period, 1st-2nd century AD.
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[recto]
[column i]
Mareinos son of Herakleides, year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
Sarapion son of Dionysios, year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
Apollonios son of […], year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
Sabinus son of Didymos, [year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols] […]
year 20, the same […]
Apollonios […]
year 20, the same
Thesmophorion quarter: Mystharion son of Kas[…] […]
year 20, the same
Linen-weavers' quarter: Ptolemaios also called Andronikos, son of Ptolemaios, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
Arabon […] (?)
Heron son of Herodes, year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
[…] of the Boutaphion quarter […], year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
Alexandros son of Mysthes, year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
Bithynians' and other places quarter
Herakleides son of […], year 19, 13 drachmas, symbolika 3 obols
year 20, the same
[…] drachmas […] bank (?) […]
[column ii]
[…] son of Apollonios son of Hierakion […]
Demetrios […]
[…]
Eudaimon […]
[… 6 lines lost …]
Tharapias son of Iou[…]
Macedonians' quarter […]
[…]
Eucheion quarter […]
[…]
[…] son of Apollonios […]
Ptolemaios […]
[… 3 lines lost …]
The uniform 13 drachmas likely represent a poll tax or similar annual levy; symbolika were small surcharges added to tax payments. The listed quarters belong to the Fayum metropolis Arsinoe, though provenance is not stated in the records.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account, Roman CE i-ii [CBW]). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
aegyptus.98.140_2
[r] [column i] Μαρεῖνος Ἡρακλείδου ιθ ἔτους δραχμαὶ ιγ συμβολικὰ τριώβολον κ ἔτους αἱ ἴσαι Σαραπίων Διονυσίου ιθ ἔτους δραχμαὶ ιγ συμβολικὰ τριώβολον κ ἔτους αἱ ἴσαι Ἀπολλώνιος …ον…ιου ιθ ἔτους δραχμαὶ ιγ συμβολικὰ τριώβολον κ ἔτους αἱ ἴσαι Σαβῖνος Διδύμου ιθ ἔτους δραχμαὶ ιγ συμ…