Bank Receipt for Money Tax
Receipt issued to Harmais alias Pelkis, son of Harmais, for payment of the transfer tax on the purchase of a half share of a house at the bank of the nomarchy at Arsinoiton polis to the farmers of the tax in the nomarchy
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Bank receipt for transfer tax on half a house in Tebtynis TM 12076Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptAugust 26, 41 A.D.
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A bank receipt from Ptolemais Euergetis recording that Harmais alias Pelkis paid 60 drachmas in tax on his purchase, for 600 drachmas, of a half share of a three-storey house and courtyard in Tebtynis from his brother Petesouchos. The payment was made to the agents of three nomarchs, who held the tax, on 26 August AD 41.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Year 1 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Kaisareios, 3rd intercalary day. Paid to the bank of the nomarchy in Ptolemais Euergetis of the Arsinoite nome, to the agents of Tiberius Julius Heron and Lucius Vecellius Cinyras and Serapion son of Ptolemaios, nomarchs, by Harmais alias Pelkis, son of Harmais, the tax on a half share of a three-storey house and courtyard in Tebtynis of the Polemon division, whose measurements and boundaries are shown in the contracts, (bought) from his brother Petesouchos for 600 drachmas: 60 drachmas.
I, Kallikrates son of Isidoros, have signed. Year 1 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Kaisareios, 3rd intercalary day.
I, Philotas, have signed.
[verso]
Year 1 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. Signed.
The tax of 60 drachmas is 10 percent of the 600-drachma price, the usual rate of the sales tax (enkyklion). Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the month Mesore; the intercalary days follow it at year's end.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for a Transfer Tax). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.5.235
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