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Receipt for payment for public dates TM 18078Elephantine27. Dez. 172

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Ostracon tax receipt from Elephantine, issued by the money-tax collectors Asinnios and Ammonios. It records that Bienchis son of Bienchis paid 8 drachmas 2 obols for the price of public dates of the 12th year's crop, on behalf of Hatpechnoubis son of Pasenis. It is dated 27 December 172.

In English machine translation

Asinnios son of Didymos and Ammonios, collectors of money taxes of Elephantine, through Ammonios. Paid by Bienchis son of Bienchis, his mother being Thinbiechis, for the price of public dates of the crop of year 12, in the name of Hatpechnoubis son of Pasenis, 8 drachmas 2 obols. Year 13 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, Tybi 1.

The 'price of public date palms' was a money payment owed for produce of state-owned date palms. The emperor named is Marcus Aurelius.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Τιμὴ Δημοσίου Φοίνικος). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 27. Dez. 172 · Elephantine

Ἀσίννιος Διδύμου καὶ Ἀμώνιoς πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης διʼ Ἀμωνίου. διέγραψεν. Βιῆνχις Βιήνχιος μητρὸς Θινβιήχιος ὑπὲρ τιμῆς δημοσίου φοίνικος γενήματος ιβ ἔτους ὀνόματος Ἁτπεχνούβιος Πασήνιος δραχμὰς η ὀβολοὺς β ἔτους ιγ Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου, Τῦβι α.