Receipt for the tax on vetch-sellers at Elephantine TM 18073Elephantine24. Febr. 138

Receipt issued by a contractor (hyposchesarios) of the tax on vetch-sellers at Elephantine, named Psenpnouth or similar, to Sokrates son of Horos, for 6 silver drachmas paid as the tax for the months Tybi and Mecheir. It is dated Mecheir 30 of year 22 of Hadrian (24 February 138) and was written by Siynis alias Herakl[…] for the illiterate issuer.

In English machine translation

The hyposchesarios was a contractor who undertook the collection of a tax. Orobos (vetch, bitter vetch) was a pulse used as food and fodder.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax on Selling Vetch). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.