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A tax receipt recording that Mersisouchos son of Pakebkis paid 680 drachmas to Apianos and his fellow collectors of money taxes at the village of Theogonis for the naubion tax on catoecic land. It is dated to the month Pachon of the third year of Septimius Severus, AD 195, in the Arsinoite nome.
The naubion was a tax connected with the upkeep of dykes and canals, here levied on catoecic (settler) land. The tax collectors were appointed by lot (en klero).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung für ναύβιον κατοίκων). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους γ Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Περτίνακος Σεβαστοῦ εἰς ἀρίθμησιν Παχών· διέγραψεν Ἀπιανῷ καὶ μετόχοις ἐν κλήρῳ πράκτορσι ἀργυρικῶν κώμης Θεογονίδος Μερσισοῦχος Πακήβκεως ναυβίου κατοίκων τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους […]… δραχμὰς χπ προσδιαγραφομένων […]…
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