Receipt for Poll-Tax
Receipt for the payment by two brothers of poll-tax and epistatikou hiere�n the total sum paid amounting to 16 drachmae, no doubt payment on account.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10900
Receipt for poll-tax and epistatikon of priests paid by two brothers TM 10900H�ritA.D. 186
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A receipt recording that two brothers, one of them named Nephromis, paid 16 drachmas through the tax collector Antonius and his associates for poll-tax and the priests' epistatikon tax. It was issued at Theadelphia in the Fayum in October 186 AD, in the reign of Commodus.
In English machine translation
Year 27 of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Caesar the lord, Phaophi 23. Paid through Antonius and his associates, collectors, by Ph[…] son of […] and Nephromis his brother, for poll-tax and the epistatikon of the priests for the 27th year, at Theadelphia, 16 drachmas, total 16 drachmas.
The epistatikon of the priests was a tax originally connected with temple supervision; it has no exact English equivalent. One record gives the find-spot as Harit, the modern site of ancient Theadelphia.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Poll - Tax, etc.). 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.fay.51
ἔτους ἑβδόμου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, Φαῶφι κγ, διέγραψε διὰ Ἀντωνίου καὶ μετόχων πρακτόρων Φ…[…]…ω […]…υ καὶ Νέφρομμις ἀδελφὸς λαογραφίας καὶ ἐπιστατικοῦ ἱερέων ἑβδόμου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ ἔτους Θεαδελφείας δραχμὰς δέκα ἕξ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ …