A list of late payments of the dike tax (chomatikon) made at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, recorded in year 2 of Vespasian. Individual taxpayers, named with father, grandfather and mother, each pay 6 drachmas 4 obols for arrears from earlier years under Nero, Galba and Vespasian, through the banker Charisios, the toparch Iason and others.
In English machine translation
[Fragment A]
Year two of Imperator Caesar Augustus Vespasian.
Paid through […] to Charisios, banker of the dike tax, for year 1 of Vespasian […]
… Pa…[…]tos, son of Ischyras, mother […], 6 drachmas 4 obols
Ptollis son of Nemesion, mother Thermouthis, 6 drachmas 4 obols
[…]on son of Nemesion, of the same mother.
[Fragment B]
[…] through Iason, toparch of the dike tax, for year 1 of Galba, 40 drachmas, of which the amount per man:
Antis son of Apollonios son of Antis, mother Tan[…]s, […] 6 drachmas 4 obols
Nekpheros son of Harphaesis son of Amenneus, mother […]s, 6 drachmas 4 obols
[…]allis son of Dikranes son of Alkimos, mother Isis daughter of […], 6 drachmas 4 obols
Apynchis son of Apynchis son of Papiris, mother Tepheros daughter of […]anko(?), 6 drachmas 4 obols
Panepieus son of Panegbeus son of Panegbeus, mother Theanion daughter of […], 6 drachmas 4 obols
[…]ios also called Lucius, son of Nemesion son of Ptolemaios, mother […], 6 drachmas 4 obols.
[Fragment C, column 1]
[…]on son of Psenobastis son of Sambas, farmer, mother Tanekpheros daughter of Kephalon, 6 drachmas 4 obols
Abaskantos, slave of Nemesion, mother Tyche, 6 drachmas 4 obols
Psosneus son of Onnophris son of Psosneus, […], mother Talous daughter of Ammonios, 6 drachmas 4 obols
Year 12: Pnepheros son of Nekpheros son of Pnepheros, weaver, mother Thermouthis daughter of Panegbeus, 6 drachmas 4 obols
Dionysios son of Nanion son of Dionysios, […](?), mother Senaunchis daughter of Nekpheros,
through Niger, cavalryman, for year 1 of Vespasian, 6 drachmas 4 obols
Likewise Pates son of Polemon son of Papais, laborer, mother Tepheros daughter of Nekpheros, 6 drachmas 4 obols
Mysthas son of Sambas son of Thebaios, mother Tereus daughter of Herakles, 6 drachmas 4 obols.
[Fragment C, column 2]
Phamenoth, year 2, for year 10 of Nero:
235(?), 6 drachmas: Pankrates son of Onnophris son of Psosneus, […], mother Talous daughter of Ammonios.
Pharmouthi, year 2, for year 1 of Vespasian:
235(?), 4 drachmas: Ammonios the elder, son of Maron son of Ammonios, […] mother Tateus.
The dike tax (chomatikon) funded maintenance of irrigation embankments; 6 drachmas 4 obols was the standard annual rate. The figures 'λμε' and the abbreviations 'πκ' and 'γαλλεωρ' are of uncertain meaning.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Aufstellung nachträglicher Zahlungen der Dammsteuer). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.