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A tax receipt recording that Marinos, through his brother Ammonios, paid 16 drachmas to Apollonios and his fellow collectors of money taxes at Ptolemais Euergetis. The payment was for the levy toward the Hadrianeion (temple of the deified Hadrian) in Alexandria. It is dated 23 May 147 AD, under Antoninus Pius.
The merismos was an apportioned levy; this one funded the Hadrianeion, the temple of the deified Hadrian in Alexandria.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ἀπόδειξις καταβολῆς φόρου). 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 δεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Παχὼν κη, διέγραψεν Ἀπολλωνίῳ καὶ μετόχοις πράκτορσι ἀργυρικῶν Πτολεμαίδος Εὐεργέτιδος Μαρῖνος διὰ Ἀμμωνίου ἀδελφοῦ μερισμοῦ τοῦ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ Ἁδριανείου δραχμὰς δεκαὲξ γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιϛ
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