Home › Spine › TM 140713
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 140713

Receipt for weaver's trade tax paid to a tax contractor TM 140713Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)144

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

Receipt for a payment of 8 silver drachmas made by the weaver Harieus son of Harpagathes of Soknopaiou Nesos to Areios, the contractor collecting the trade tax, toward the tax for the fifth year. It is dated Mecheir 23 of year 7 of Antoninus Pius (AD 144).

In English machine translation

Year seven of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 23. Harieus son of Harpagathes, grandson of Harieus, his mother being Tanoupis, weaver, of Soknopaiou Nesos, has paid to Areios, contractor of the trade tax, for the trade tax of the fifth year, on account, 8 drachmas of silver, total 8 drachmas.

The cheironaxion was a tax on craftsmen and trades, here collected by a private tax farmer (eklemptor). The payment in year 7 is a late, partial payment for the tax of year 5.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

cde.85.247

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 144 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ἐβδόμου Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεχεὶρ κγ διέγραψε Ἀρείῳ ἐγλήμπτορι χειρωναξίου Ἑριεῦς Ἁρπαγάθου τοῦ Ἑριέως μητρὸς Τανούπιος γέρδιος Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου ὑπὲρ χειρωναξίου τοῦ πέμπτου ἔτους ἐπὶ λόγου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ η.