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A receipt recording that Orsenouphis and his fellow village elders of Boubastos, together with Pekysis, an elder of Soknopaiou Nesos, paid 80 drachmas for the monodesmia tax on hay and other goods. It is dated 17 April 170 under Marcus Aurelius, from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum.
Monodesmia (literally 'single bundling') was a levy connected with bundles of hay and other produce, often paid in money; it has no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 δεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Ἀρμενιακοῦ Μηδικοῦ Παρθικοῦ Μεγίστου Φαρμοῦθι κβ. διέγραψεν Ὀρσενοῦφις καὶ μέτοχοι πρεσβύτεροι κώμης Βουβάστου καὶ Πεκύσεως πρεσβύτερος Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου ὑπὲρ μονοδεσμίας χόρτου καὶ ἄλλων εἰδῶν δραχμὰς ὀγδοήκον…
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