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A bank or tax receipt from Pathyris recording that Pakoibis son of Patous paid the 10 percent sales tax (enkyklion) on a pastophorion, a priestly dwelling or shrine room inside the temple, which he bought from Thortaios son of Nechthminis. The property was valued at 1 talent and the tax was 600 copper drachmas, paid through the tax-farmer Apollonios and his partners in winter 99/98 BC.
The enkyklion was a tax on property transfers, here charged at one tenth of the price. A pastophorion was a room or cell within a temple precinct used by pastophoroi, a class of temple servants, and could be bought and sold.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 ιϛ Χοίαχ. τέτακται εἰς τὴν δεκάτην τοῦ ἐγκυκλίου διʼ Ἀπολλωνίου τελώνου καὶ τῶν μετόχων Πακοῖβις Πατοῦτος τέλος παστοφορίου ἐντὸς τοῦ ἐν Παθύρει ἱεροῦ ὃ ἠγόρασεν παρὰ Θορταίου τοῦ Νεχθμίνιος καὶ συντετίμηται ταλάντου ἑνὸς τέλος χαλκοῦ δραχμὰς ἑξακοσίας, γίνονται χ.
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