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Ἡρακλείδης καὶ Ἰσίδωρος μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Παχομψᾶχις βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν Πετοννόφρις Ἁρμάχιος ὑπὲρ μερισμοῦ β δραχμὰς δώδεκα ὀβολοὺς τρεῖς δραχμὰς ιβ τριώβολον ἔτους ϛ Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Παχὼν ιγ.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 100067
Receipt from the contractors of the sacred gate of Syene for a merismos payment TM 100067Elephantine oder Syene8. Mai 143
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Tax receipt issued by Herakleides and Isidoros, contractors of the sacred gate of Syene, through their assistant Pachompsachis. It records that Petonnophris son of Harmachis paid 12 drachmas 3 obols toward an assessed levy (merismos), on 8 May 143, at Elephantine or Syene.
In English machine translation
Herakleides and Isidoros, contractors of the sacred gate of Syene, through Pachompsachis, assistant.
Petonnophris son of Harmachis has paid for the second (?) assessment twelve drachmas three obols, 12 dr. 3 ob. Year 6 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pachon 13.
A merismos was a tax assessed and apportioned among the inhabitants; the 'β' after it may mean a second installment or a second kind of levy. The 'sacred gate' was a customs or toll station whose revenues were farmed out to contractors.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.