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A tax receipt recording that Marcus Memmius Saturninus paid 28 drachmas 3 obols, plus surcharges, for the arithmetikon tax of the katoikoi to Flavius Sarapion and his fellow collectors of money taxes at Philadelphia. It was issued on 15 April 164 in the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
The arithmetikon katoikon was a money tax levied on katoikic (settler) land; the prosdiagraphomena were standard surcharges added to the principal. The final total is restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für Arithmetikon Katoikon). 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 τετάρτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου Σεβαστοῦ Φαρμοῦθι κ. διέγραψε Φλαυίῳ Σαραπίωνι καὶ μετόχοις πράκτορσιν ἀργυρικῶν Φιλαδελφείας Μάρκος Μέμμιος Σατορνεῖλος ἀριθμητικοῦ κατοίκων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους …
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