Tax receipt
Receipt for a Skylax for having paid his taxes to the superintendent of taxes of confiscated land in Theadelphia.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12567
Receipt for payment to overseers of confiscated properties at Theadelphia TM 12567Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt159/160 A.D.
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Receipt recording that Skylax paid money to Heron and his associates, overseers of confiscated properties at the village of Theadelphia, toward arrears from the 22nd year of Antoninus Pius. It was written in AD 159 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 23 of Imperator Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, […] 28. Skylax has paid to Heron and [associates], overseers of the confiscated properties of the village of Theadelphia, [toward] the arrears of the 22nd year, for the reckoning of Mesore, [drachmas] […]
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"Confiscated properties" renders genematographoumena, estates seized and inventoried by the state, whose revenues these overseers (epiteretai) administered. The amount paid is lost.
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.3.117
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