Il lessico fiscale dell’impero Romano nella provincia d’Egitto: le tasse in denaro

The article is a first step in the course of a research on the vocabulary of cash taxes attested in Roman Egypt. It starts with an attempt to categorize the attested names of taxes according to the semantic types of their eponymous elements, followed by a prospect of some denominations of important tax categories. A couple of examples will show the set of problems caused by lexical variation in the appellation of some taxes and by homonymies of diverse imposts. In conclusion the contribution analyzes a couple of significant or for certain reasons interesting denominations which offer occasions for further lexical considerations.