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Receipt for enkyklion tax on purchased land paid by Valeria TM 11294Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)Juni - Juli 206

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A receipt recording that Valeria, daughter of Gaius, paid in instalments the enkyklion (sales tax) on land of separated revenue she acquired from Marcus Julius Cassianus for 600 drachmas. Payments were made to Apion, nomarch of the Arsinoite nome, through his assistant, in Phamenoth, Pachon and Epeiph of year 14 of Severus and Caracalla (AD 206), probably at Philadelphia.

In English machine translation

Year 14 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Phamenoth 1. Valeria daughter of Gaius has paid to Apion, nomarch of the Arsinoite nome, to the account of the enkyklion, through Anoubion also called Syros, assistant, for 1 1/2 arouras (?) of separated revenue land, which […] from Marcus Julius Cassianus at a price of six hundred drachmas […] 13 Phamenoth, toward the tax she owes, on account, thirty drachmas, total 30 drachmas; and Pachon, another eight drachmas four obols on account, total 8 drachmas 4 obols; and Epeiph, the remaining twenty-five drachmas three obols, total 25 drachmas 3 obols.

The enkyklion was a tax on transfers of property such as sales; 'separated revenue' (kechorismene prosodos) land was a category of state land. The dating formula includes Geta, called Caesar Augustus here.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Reçu d’ ἐγκύκλιον). 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 · Juni - Juli 206 · Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ιδ Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστῶν καὶ Πουβλίου Σεπτιμίου Γέτα Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Φαμενὼθ α. διέγραψεν Ἀπίωνι νομάρχῃ Ἀρσινοίτου εἰς τὸν τοῦ ἐγκυκλίου λόγον διʼ Ἀνουβίωνος τοῦ καὶ Σύρου βοηθοῦ Οὐαλερία Γαίου ὑπὲρ…