Fragments of a list of trade tax payments from the city of Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoe) in the Fayum, about AD 276. Tradesmen, including dyers and beer-sellers, are listed by name and city quarter with the sums they paid.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A, column 1]
[…]
[…]ke 16 drachmas
[…] in the Syrian quarter 16 drachmas
[…] in the Hollow 12 drachmas
[…]tion 16 drachmas
[…] in the Hermouthiake quarter 16 drachmas
[…]upos 8 drachmas
[…]ou 16 drachmas
[…]ou
[…]
[Fragment A, column 2]
[…]
[…]sias in […]
[…]neis in the Kapiton quarter [8] drachmas
[…]la in the […]nie quarter 8 drachmas
[…] in the Tympanon quarter 8 drachmas
[…] son of Amoules in the Nemesaion quarter 8 drachmas
[…]os in the Myris quarter 8 drachmas
[…] in the Severus quarter 8 drachmas
[…] in the Salt Market quarter 8 drachmas
[…] in the Severus quarter 8 drachmas
Total 116 drachmas
Of the dyers:
Eudaimon in the Syrian quarter 24 drachmas
Sabinus in the Kapiton quarter 24 drachmas
Dioskorion […] with Alypios 24 drachmas
Paulos in the Myris quarter 24 drachmas
Melas in the Palace quarter 24 drachmas
Koukomos in the Gymnasium quarter 24 drachmas
Koutas in the Myris quarter 24 drachmas
[…]
[Fragment B]
[…]
Beer-sellers […]
Herakles in the Sanpallion quarter […]
Hermeias in the Akantheion quarter […]
Souchammon in the Nymphaion quarter […]
Samonnaros in the Philoxenos quarter […]
Kopres in the Theon quarter […]
Heras in the Garland-weavers' quarter […]
Total 136 drachmas
The names after 'in the' are quarters (amphoda) of the city. The word 'opoupa' after Dioskorion is unexplained and left untranslated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gewerbesteuerlisten aus Arsinoe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.