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Receipt for land taxes on vineyard land at Hephaistias TM 11393Hephaistias (Arsinoites)2. Juni 213

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A receipt recording that Julius Serenus, a former decurion, paid bronze-money land taxes on vineyard land for year 20 at Hephaistias in the Arsinoite nome. It is dated 2 June 213 under Caracalla.

In English machine translation

Year 21 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Pius Augustus, Pauni 8, for the account of Pachon. Julius Serenus, former decurion, has paid for vineyard land, for year 20, at Hephaistias: bronze, 1 talent; for naubion 240 (drachmas), surcharges 1,250; for eparourion 4,000, [surcharges] 310, exchange fee 200.

The naubion and eparourion were taxes on land, the latter levied per aroura. Prosdiagraphomena were surcharges and the kollybos an exchange fee added to payments in bronze.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über Grundsteuer für Rebenland im Hebebezirk Hephaistias). 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.hamb.1.47

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Juni 213 · Hephaistias (Arsinoites)

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