Tax Receipt
Receipt for taxes paid on land, probably a garden or a vineyard
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Receipt for money taxes on produce and survey paid by Aurelia Ammonarion TM 10562Hephaistias (Arsinoites)201 CE
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A receipt recording that Aurelia Ammonarion, acting through Nilammon, paid 40 drachmas to Horion and his fellow collectors of money taxes at Hephaistias in the Arsinoite nome. The payment covered taxes on produce and land survey for the 8th year, and was made on 8 April 201.
In English machine translation
Year 9 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Pius, Augusti, Pharmouthi 13.
Paid to Horion and his associates, collectors of money taxes of Hephaistias, through Diotimos the assistant, by Aurelia Ammonarion through Nilammon, for produce (?) and survey tax of year 8, forty drachmas, total 40 drachmas.
The tax 'for eide' (literally 'kinds' or 'produce') together with geometria, the survey tax, was levied on land under orchards, gardens or vineyards. A cheiristes was an assistant handling payments for the collectors.
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.
p.col.10.271
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