Receipt for Tax Payment
Receipt issued by the sitologoi of Philadelphia, for money directed toward the purchase of wheat (requisition for the annona militaris?)
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Receipt for money paid to the sitologoi toward a wheat purchase TM 12315Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 30, 149 A.D.
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A receipt recording that Antonius, through his agent Agathopous, paid 200 drachmas to the grain officials (sitologoi) of Philadelphia in the Fayum. The money was to go toward the compulsory purchase of wheat from the harvest of year 11. It is dated 30 May 149 AD, in the reign of Antoninus Pius.
In English machine translation
Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pauni 5, for the account of Pachon. Antonius paid through Agathopous to the sitologoi of Philadelphia, for the dues, on account of security (?), so that it may go toward the purchase of wheat of the produce of the eleventh year, 200 drachmas, total 200 drachmas.
The synone was a compulsory state purchase of wheat, possibly for military supply. The phrase 'on account of security' (enechyron) is unusual here and its exact sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax Receipt). 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.12.653
ἔτους ιβ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Παῦνι ε εἰς ἀρίθμησιν Παχών. διέγραψεν Ἀντώνιος διὰ Ἀγαθόποδος σιτολόγοις Φιλαδελφείας εἰς τα καθήκοντα εἰς ἐνεχύρου λόγον ὅπως ἂν χωρήσῃ εἰς συνωνὴν πυροῦ γενήματος ἑνδεκάτου ἔτους δραχμὰς διακοσίας…