Tax Receipts
Receipt for payment of a variety of taxes, including SUNTACIMON, FULAKWN, EPIMERSMOS, APORWN, DESMOFULAKIA, DAPANH, DIPLWN(?), and UIKE. (Grenfell, Hunt, & Hogarth)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10903
Receipt for syntaximon and other taxes paid at Theadelphia TM 10903Harit (Fayum)111 CE
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A cumulative tax receipt from Theadelphia in the Fayum, recording a series of payments made by Belles through the tax collectors Flavius Heliodoros and Arabion during year 14 of Trajan (AD 110/111). Taxes paid include the syntaximon (poll-tax), guard-tax, the levy for those unable to pay, prison-guard tax, and pig-tax.
In English machine translation
Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, Phaophi, on account, 26. Belles the younger (?), whose mother is the same, has paid through Flavius Heliodoros and Arabion, collectors, for the syntaximon of the same year of Theadelphia 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas; for guard-tax 1 drachma 2 obols; for the apportionment for those without means of the 13th year 2 drachmas 1/2 obol; for the prison-guards 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for the expense of the diplai (?) 1/2 obol.
Hathyr, on account, 26: 4 drachmas 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi, for the pig-tax 1 drachma 1 obol, total 4 drachmas 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi, for the pig-tax 1 drachma 1 obol.
Mecheir 25: 12 drachmas, total 12 drachmas.
Pachon, on account, 23: 12 drachmas, total 12 drachmas.
Epeiph, on account, 24: 8 drachmas, total [8 drachmas].
The 'apportionment for those without means' (epimerismos aporon) was a levy spreading the unpaid taxes of defaulters over other taxpayers. 'Allos' likely distinguishes this Belles from a homonymous brother with the same mother.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax - Receipts). 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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