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Cumulative receipt for aporikon payments by Ankophis son of Pabous TM 14113Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites, Ägypten)26. Nov. 210
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A cumulative receipt from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum recording monthly payments by Ankophis son of Pabous to Abous and his fellow collectors of money taxes for the aporikon tax of regnal years 17 and 18 of Septimius Severus. Instalments, usually of 12 drachmas, run from Hathyr of year 17 to Hathyr of year 19 (AD 208-210).
In English machine translation
Year 17 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Hathyr 30.
Paid to Abous and associates, collectors of money taxes of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos, by Ankophis son of Pabous, for the poll tax (aporikon) of the same 17th year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Tybi 30, the same, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Mecheir 30, likewise the same Ankophis, for the same year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Phamenoth 30, likewise the same, 8 drachmas, total 8 dr.
Pharmouthi 30, likewise the same, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Pachon 30, likewise the same Ankophis, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Pauni 30, likewise the same Ankophis, for the same 17th year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Epeiph 30 […] […] 30 […] 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Year 18, Thoth 30, the same Ankophis, for the 17th year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Hathyr 30, the same, for the aporikon of the 18th year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Hadrianos 30, the same, for the 18th year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Tybi 30 […] the same Ankophis, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Mecheir 30, the same Ankophis, for the same year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Phamenoth 30 […]
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[…] 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Epeiph 30, likewise the same, for the 18th year, ⟦12⟧ 8 drachmas, total 8 dr.
Mesore 30, likewise the same, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Year 19, Thoth 30, likewise the same, for the 18th year, 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
Phaophi 30, the same, for the 18th year, 8 drachmas, total 8 dr.
Hathyr 30, the same Ankophis, for the 18th year, 8 drachmas, total 8 dr.
The aporikon was a tax, apparently levied on the poor or those without property, with no exact English equivalent. Hadrianos is a month name used in the Fayum, equivalent to Choiak; the heading date (Hathyr year 17) differs from the HGV date, which reflects the last entry.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt from the praktores argyrikōn of Soknopaiou Nesos). 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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