Tax receipt
Only the beginning is preserved of this receipt issued by the praktores argurik�n of Hephaistias. The papyrus was folded five times vertically from right to left.
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Receipt from the collectors of money taxes of Hephaistias TM 11199HephaistiasA.D. 168
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Beginning of a tax receipt issued by the collectors of money taxes (praktores argyrikon) of the village of Hephaistias in the Arsinoite nome. It is dated 12 Hadrianos of the 9th year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, 8 December 168.
In English machine translation
Year 9 of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici Maximi, Hadrianos 12. Die[…] and his associates, collectors of money taxes of Hephaistias […]
[…] of the current [9th year] […]
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Hadrianos was an honorific name for the month Choiak used in the Roman period. Only the opening of the receipt survives, so the tax paid and the payer are lost.
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.fouad.1.66
ἔτους ἐνάτου Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν Ἀρμενιακῶν Μηδικῶν Παρθικῶν μεγίστων, Ἁδριανοῦ ιβ· Διε[…]… καὶ οἱ μέτοχοι πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἡφαιστιάδος […]σιος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος θ ἔτους ρ[…] […]…ετ[…]τες[…] [… ? lines lost …]