Tax receipt
Receipt for tax payment.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12566
Receipt for money taxes and naubion paid at Apias TM 12566Apias, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptMay 25, 144 A.D.
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A tax receipt in which Ammonis and his fellow tax collectors at Apias acknowledge that Ptolemaios son of Didymos, paying through the farmer Akous, paid 18 silver drachmas for the seventh year and 13 copper obols for the naubion tax. They promise an official receipt in exchange for this private note. Written at Apias in the Arsinoite nome in AD 144.
In English machine translation
Ammonis and his associates, collectors of money taxes of Apias, to Ptolemaios son of Didymos, through Akous, farmer, greetings. We have received from you on account of the payment of the seventh year of Apias 18 drachmas of silver, total 18 drachmas. The same, for naubion, 13 copper obols, 13 obols.
For which we shall make you an official receipt when you bring back this handwritten note.
Year 7 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Pachon 30.
The naubion was a tax connected with the upkeep of dykes and canals. This handwritten note was provisional, to be exchanged for a formal public receipt (symbolon).
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.oslo.3.116
Ἀμμῶνις καὶ οἱ μέτοχοι πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἀπιάδος Πτολεμαίῳ Διδύμου διὰ Ἀκοῦτος γεωργοῦ χαίρειν. ἔχομεν παρὰ σοῦ εἰς λόγον ἀριθμήσεως τοῦ ἑβδόμου ἔτους Ἀπίαδος ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιη. ὁ αὐτὸς ναυβίου χαλκοῦ ὀβολοὺς δέκα τρεῖς, ὀβολοὶ ιγ. ὧν ποιήσομέν σοι…