Tax-Receipt
This receipt is of a miscellaneous character, acknowledging payments from a certain Onnophris on account of no less than seven different taxes.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10904
Receipt for multiple tax payments by Onnophris son of Herodianos TM 10904Kasr el BanâtA.D. 117-18
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A tax receipt recording a series of payments made by Onnophris son of Herodianos through the tax collectors at Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome during the second year of Hadrian. It covers the poll tax (syntaximon), the pig tax, temple dues, guard taxes and the levy for the destitute.
In English machine translation
Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus, Phaophi, after the account, 16. Do not use any other receipt.
Onnophris son of Herodianos, grandson of Pisais, his mother being Charis, has paid through Maron and Sabinus, collectors, for the syntaximon of the same year, at Euhemeria, 8 silver drachmas, total 8 drachmas 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for the pig tax 1 obol; for the hieratika 4 1/2 obols.
Choiak 22, through Sabinus, another 8 silver drachmas, total 8 drachmas. Phamenoth, after the account, 23, through Pekysis, 8 silver drachmas, total 8 drachmas. Pachon, after the account, 20, 8 silver drachmas, total 8 drachmas. Pauni, after the account, 16, 8 silver drachmas, total 8 drachmas; for the watchtower guards 2 1/2 obols; for the levy for the destitute of year 1, 8 silver drachmas, total 8 drachmas 1 obol […]. Epeiph, after the account, 27, 4 silver drachmas, total 4 drachmas; for the levy for the destitute of year 2, 8 silver drachmas, total 8 drachmas; for the prison guards 1 obol; for the river guard tax 1 obol. Mesore, after the account, 25, for the levy for the destitute 3 drachmas 3 obols 2 chalkoi, total 3 drachmas 3 obols 2 chalkoi.
The syntaximon was a fixed-rate capitation tax; the 'levy for the destitute' (merismos aporon) made taxpayers cover arrears of those unable to pay. 'After the account' marks dates following the collectors' accounting entries.
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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