An early Ptolemaic bank register from the Arsinoite nome revised

Willy Clarysse (1) , Dorothy J. Thompson (2) , Laurent Capron (3)

1 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2 CAM - University of Cambridge [UK]
3 Centre Jean Pépin

New readings and a rearrangement of the fragments have led to this reedition of an Arsinoite bank register, first published two years ago (APF 55/2 [2009] 230-250). The register covers one month in year 12 (of Ptolemy III). A wide variety of taxes is recorded, paid by both civilian and military sectors at different local banks; details are here collected in a central register most probably from the nome capital. The surviving text records the final 5-6% of inpayments for the current year, followed by arrears going back year-by-year. Different agios are charged on different taxes. The large sums on the back are probably annual payments relating to the whole nome.

Mots clés: money; military; bank; Taxes; register

Domaines: Etudes classiques

Willy Clarysse, Dorothy J. Thompson, Laurent Capron. An early Ptolemaic bank register from the Arsinoite nome revised. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 2011, 57 (1), pp.35-54. ⟨halshs-02552381⟩