Receipt for instalments of hair-cutting and trade taxes paid by two slave women TM 10251Arsinoites

A tax receipt from the Arsinoite nome recording instalment payments made by two slave women, Sennesis and […]mouthis, to Zosimos and his fellow tax-farmers for a tax connected with hair-cutting and the trade tax. The payments are for the 14th year of Hadrian (AD 129/130).

In English machine translation

The tax called kopē trichos (literally 'cutting of hair') was probably a trade tax on barbers or hairdressers; the cheironaxion was a general tax on craftsmen. The date is derived from the regnal year in the text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax Receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.