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Receipt for a priest's admission fee for the Hermaion at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 12457Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)4. Okt. 138

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A tax receipt recording that Pakysis, a priest of the third phyle at Soknopaiou Nesos, paid 8 drachmas to the money-tax collectors for the admission fee (eiskrisis) connected with the temple of Hermes for the previous year. It is dated 4 October 138 AD.

In English machine translation

Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Phaophi 7. Pakysis son of Stotoetis the elder, son of Pakysis, priest of the 3rd phyle, has paid through Stotoetis the younger and associates, collectors of money taxes, for the entrance fee (eiskrisis) of the Hermaion temple for the past year 1, of Soknopaiou Nesos, 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas, with additional charges of 3 obols and receipt fee of 3 obols.

Eiskrisis was the fee paid on a priest's admission into temple service. The prosdiagraphomena and symbolikon were small surcharges added to the main payment.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung für εἴσκρισις). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.muench.3.1.107

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 4. Okt. 138 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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