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Receipt for rents, two-drachma tax and zeugmatika paid to a dekaprotos TM 15944Oxyrhynchites4. Aug. 250

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A tax receipt recording that Aurelius Ammonaros son of Panares paid 28 drachmas to the dekaprotos Aurelius Dionysios alias Apollonios of the Eastern toparchy for rents, the two-drachma tax and the zeugmatika. It is dated 4 August 250 in the Oxyrhynchite nome, in the first year of the emperor Decius.

In English machine translation

Year 1 of Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius Caesar the lord, Mesore 11. Aurelius Ammonaros son of Panares has paid to Aurelius Dionysios also called Apollonios, dekaprotos of the Eastern toparchy, for rents and the two-drachma tax and the bridge tax (?) of the account of the current year 1, twenty-eight drachmas, total 28 drachmas. I, Aurelius Leonides, have signed.

The dekaprotoi were local officials responsible for collecting taxes in a district. The zeugmatika was a levy usually connected with bridges or pontoons; its exact nature is debated.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Φόροι, Διδραχμία, and Zευγματικά). 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.oxy.44.3180

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 4. Aug. 250 · Oxyrhynchites

α ἔτους Γαίου Μεσσίου Κυίντου Τραιανοῦ Δεκίου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, Μεσορὴ ια. διέγραψεν Αὐρηλίῳ Διονυσίῳ τῷ καὶ Απολλωνίῳ δεκαπρώτῳ Ἀπηλιώτου τοπαρχίας Αὐρήλιος Ἀμμωνᾶρος Πανάρους φόρων καὶ διδραχμίας καὶ ζευγματικῶν λήμματος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος α ἔτους δραχμὰς εἴκοσι ὀκτώ, γίνονται δρ…