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A receipt for payment of the enkyklion (sales tax) by Longinia Sarapias to the nomarch of the Arsinoite nome, through his assistant, on her purchase of a 3-aroura olive grove near Philadelphia from Antonia for 300 drachmas. It is dated 25 May 211 at Philadelphia in the Fayum.
The enkyklion was a tax on transfers of property such as sales. Land 'in the category paying one-sixth' (hektologoumene) was assessed at a sixth of its produce; the payment here is provisional, pending formal valuation.
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 ιθ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Πουβλίου Σεπτιμίου Γέτα Βρεταννικῶν Μεγίστων Εὐσεβῶν Σεβαστῶν Παχὼν λ. διέγραψεν Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀπίωνι καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει νομάρχῃ Ἀρσινοΐτου εἰς τὸν τοῦ ἐνκυκλίου λόγον διὰ Ἀνουβίωνος τοῦ καὶ Σύρου βοηθοῦ Λογγεινία Σαραπίας ἐλαιωνοπαραδείσου ἐν ἑκτο…
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