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Receipt for dike tax on the garden of Isokrates TM 128721Arsinoites (?)24. Sept. 256 v.Chr.

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A double bank receipt (short upper text and fuller lower text) recording that Pasis son of Semtheus paid 3 copper drachmas in two instalments as dike tax for the garden of Isokrates for year 30. Payment was made to the dokimastes Dioskourides and the banker Artemidoros, witnessed by Dion's agent Asklepiades, in 256 BC, probably in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

Year 30, Mesore 4. Pasis son of Semtheus, for the dike tax of the garden of Isokrates, for year 30. Year 30, Mesore […]. Paid to Dioskourides the dokimastes and Artemidoros the banker, in the presence of Asklepiades the agent of Dion, by Pasis son of Semtheus, for the dike tax of the garden of Isokrates for year 30, 2 drachmas of copper; on the 11th, another 1 drachma of copper. Dike tax, 3 drachmas.

The chomatikon was a tax for the upkeep of dikes and embankments. A dokimastes was an official who checked the coins paid in at the bank.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über drei Drachmen Chomatikon). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 24. Sept. 256 v.Chr. · Arsinoites (?)

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