A tax receipt from the Arsinoite nome recording several payments in silver drachmas made in Year 12 of Trajan (AD 108/109) to the collectors Soterichos and Ptolemaios. The taxpayer, son of Tapettoouk(is), paid the syntaximon (poll tax), the guards' tax, the pig tax and other charges in instalments.
In English machine translation
Year 12 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus […]
Paid to Soterichos and Ptolemaios, collectors, by Pe…[…], whose mother is Tapettoouk(is), for the syntaximon of the same year […] 16 drachmas of silver, total 16 drachmas; for the guards and […]
The same paid another 8 drachmas of silver, total [8 drachmas] […]
Phamenoth 30, after account 29, paid […]
[…] for the guards 1 drachma of silver, total 1 drachma, and […]
another 4 drachmas of silver, total [4 drachmas] […]
Pauni [30], after account 23, the same paid for […]
1 drachma of silver, total 1 drachma; for the pig tax […]
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The syntaximon was the Arsinoite term for the combined poll tax; "after account" (meta logon) indicates the payment was credited to an earlier date than it was made.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.