Receipt for payment of the eight-drachma tax by the elders of Soknopaiou Nesos TM 10283Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites, Ägypten)22. März 211

A receipt recording a payment of 443 drachmas 3 obols made by the village elders of Soknopaiou Nesos for the eight-drachma tax for year 19. The payment went to one Sotas son of Herieus, and the receipt is dated 22 March 211 under Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta.

In English machine translation

The oktadrachmos was a tax of eight drachmas, here paid collectively by the village elders. Line 8 is largely illegible, so Sotas's exact role is uncertain.

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