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Tax receipts issued to Aunes son of Harthotes at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome in year 13 of Claudius (AD 53), recording payments for the bath tax and for the parazyge tax. A further, damaged receipt for 8 drachmas follows.
The parazyge was a tax of uncertain nature, perhaps connected with ferry boats or yokes of animals. The receipts are not in chronological order; the given date corresponds to Pharmouthi 25 of year 13.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ricevute di tasse). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[ctr] ἔτους ιγ Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Παῦνι α διαγέγραφε Αὐνῆς Ἁρθώτου ὑπὲρ βαλανείων Θεαδελφείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δύο τριώβολον· γίνονται δραχμαὶ β τριώβολον ἔτους ιγ Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος…
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