Receipt for syntaximon instalments paid at Bakchias TM 12461Bakchias (Arsinoites)222 - 235

A tax receipt from the reign of Severus Alexander recording several instalments of 4 drachmas each toward the syntaximon (poll tax), paid by a man named Turbo to Aurelius Heraklas and his fellow collectors of money taxes at the village of Bakchias in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

The syntaximon was a fixed money tax, in practice the poll tax, paid in instalments. The regnal year, payment dates and the taxpayer's full name are lost.

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