Tax-Receipt
Beginning of a tax-receipt dated in the thirteenth year of Aurel. Antonius Caesar the lord, Arm. Med. Parth. Germ. Max., Mecheir.
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Receipt for money taxes paid to the collectors of Bakchias TM 10438�mm el'AtlA.D. 173
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Beginning of a tax receipt from Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome, dated 22 February 173 under Marcus Aurelius. Dioskoros son of Zoilos paid money taxes to the collector Aphrodisios and his associates; the details of the payment are lost.
In English machine translation
Year thirteen of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Germanicus Maximus, Mecheir 28.
Paid to Aphrodisios and his associates, collectors of money taxes of Bakchias, by Dioskoros son of Zoilos son of Zoilos, his mother being Thermouthis,
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The praktores argyrikon were the officials who collected taxes payable in money. The text was also published as P.Fay. 200; one record gives the find-spot as Umm el-Atl, the modern site of Bakchias.
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.
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