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Three tax farmers of Oxyrhyncha and nearby villages, Menches, Harentotes and another Menches, acknowledge receiving a loan of 1,300 copper drachmas from Ptolemaios, farmer of the kollybos and goldsmiths' tax for the nome. They undertake to repay it in monthly instalments at the royal bank along with the tax payments they owe him, in Thoth, Phaophi and Hathyr of year 11 (195 BC).
The kollybos was a surcharge for exchanging copper against silver; the chrysochoike was a tax on goldsmiths. The list of villages announced as 'listed below' and the closing lines are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax-Farming and Loan Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Contract in which the three tax farmers of Oxyrhyncha acknowledge to have received 1300 copper drachmai from Ptolemaios, farmer of the kollybos and of the foldsmith's tax (chrysokoike) for the nome; they agree to pay it back in three instalments on top of the regular payments the…
[r] Μένχης καὶ Ἁρεντώτης καὶ Μένχης οἱ ἐξειληφότες Ὀξύρυνχα καὶ τῶν ὑπογεγραμμένων κωμῶν Πτολεμαίωι τῶι ἐξειληφότι τὸν κόλλυβον καὶ τὴν χρυσοχοϊκὴν τοῦ νομοῦ εἰς τὸ ια ἔτος χαίρειν· ἔχομεν παρὰ σοῦ χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς χιλίας τριακοσίας , γίνονται Ατ, ἃς ἀποδώσομέν σοι κατὰ μῆνα ἅμα τῶ…
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