A tax receipt recording a payment of 2 drachmas for the naubion, a tax connected with dyke and canal work, made to the collectors of money taxes, one named Anchorepis. It is dated to the month Pauni in the joint reign of Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta, probably in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year […] of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Pauni […].
[…] paid to […] and Anchorepis, collectors of money taxes, […] son of (?) Lucretius, for the naubion tax of year […], 2 drachmas, total 2 drachmas, and for […]
I, […]ammon, have signed.
The naubion was a tax originally linked to earthwork obligations on dykes and canals, reckoned per measure of land. The regnal year and the payer's name are lost.
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 Naubionsteuer). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.