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Receipt for merismos, poll tax and head tax paid by Papremitis TM 15855Apollonopolites (?)25. Juli - 23. Aug. 206

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A tax receipt recording payments by Papremitis son of Petesthis in year 14 of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (AD 206): a merismos levy in Pharmouthi, poll tax in Pauni and Mesore, and the balance of the epikephalaion (head tax) in Mesore. It probably comes from the Apollonopolite nome.

In English machine translation

Paid by Papremitis son of Petesthis, for the merismos of year 14 of Severus and Antoninus the lords Pii Augusti, eight drachmas, total 8 drachmas. Year 14, Pharmouthi. Pauni, likewise, for poll tax 4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas. Mesore, for poll tax 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas. In the same month, for the remainder of the epikephalaion 18 drachmas 5 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi.

Merismos was a supplementary levy apportioned among taxpayers; laographia was the poll tax and epikephalaion a head tax, both without exact English equivalents.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Reçu du mérismos, de l’épiképhalaion et de la laographia). 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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p.coll.youtie.1.57

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Juli - 23. Aug. 206 · Apollonopolites (?)

διέγραψεν Παπρεμῖτις Πετεσθέως μερισμοῦ ιδ ἔτους Σεουήρου καὶ Ἀντωνίνου τῶν κυρίων Εὐσεβῶν Σεβαστῶν δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ γίνονται δραχμαὶ η ἔτους ιδ Φαρμοῦθι Παῦνι ὁμοίως λαογραφίας δραχμὰς δ γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ Μεσορὴ λαογραφίας δραχμὰς η γίνονται δραχμαὶ η τῷ αὐτῷ μηνὶ λοιπὸν ἐπικεφαλαί…