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Running receipt for syntaximon tax paid by a weaver TM 11288Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)21. März 67

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A running receipt for instalments of the syntaximon (a poll-tax type levy) paid by the weaver Psenamounis son of Harpagathes to the official Terion at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome. Payments were recorded from Phaophi to Phamenoth of Nero's 13th year (AD 66/67).

In English machine translation

Year thirteen of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Phaophi 24. Psenamounis son of Harpagathes, son of Psenamounis, his mother being Taopis daughter of Herieus, weaver, has paid to Terion, collector (?), for the syntaximon of the current year, of Soknopaiou Nesos, 8 drachmas, total 8 dr. And in the month Neos Sebastos 5, 8 drachmas, total 8 dr. And of the month Neroneios Sebastos 26, the same paid to the aforementioned 8 drachmas of silver, total 8 dr. And Tybi 22, 8 drachmas of silver, total 8 dr. And Mecheir 21, another 4 drachmas, total 4 dr. Phamenoth 25, 8 drachmas, total 8 dr., 1/2 obol, 2 chalkoi.

The syntaximon was a fixed-rate money tax, roughly equivalent to the poll tax in the Arsinoite. Neos Sebastos and Neroneios Sebastos are honorific Roman-period names for the months Hathyr and Choiak.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittungsbogen der συντάξιμον - Abgabe). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 21. März 67 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἔτους τρεισκαιδεκάτου Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Φαῶφι κδ. διέγραψεν Τηρίωνι χειριστῆι συνταξίμων τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους Σοκονοπαίου Νήσου Ψεναμοῦνις Ἁρπαγάθου ἐξ Ψεναμούνιος μητρὸς Ταώπιος τῆς Ἑριέως γέρδιος δραχμὰς ὀκτώ γίνονται δραχμαὶ η. καὶ μηνὶ …