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A receipt recording that Herakleides paid 13 silver drachmas to Petesouchos and Papos, collectors of grain taxes at Theadelphia and other villages, as the money price of wheat owed for year 3 on cleruchic land. It was issued at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome on 5 November AD 120.
The payment is the 'price of wheat' (adaeratio), a cash payment made instead of grain tax owed in kind. Part of line 7 after Zoidos' name is unread.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Public accounts, tax - lists, land - registers 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.
ἔτους πέμπτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Ἁθὺρ θ διέγραψε Πετεσούχῳ καὶ Πάπωι πράκτορσι σιτικῶν Θεαδελφείας καὶ ἄλλων κωμῶν διὰ Πάπου γραμματέως τῆς πόλεως Ἡρακλείδης[…] διὰ Ζωιδοῦ σω…α τιμῆς πυροῦ τρίτου ἔτους Θεαδελφείας κληρουχικῆς ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα τρ…
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