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A tax receipt issued by Basileides, village headman, to the scholastikos Ioannes son of Taurinos, acknowledging payment of 21 carats of gold for the annona and canonica taxes of the first indiction on behalf of Phirmi son of Pachymios, for the village of Ptemenkyrkis. It is dated 9 March 523 and comes from the Hermopolite region, with a short Coptic docket on the back.
The opening χμγ (643) is probably the Christian isopsephic symbol rather than a number. Paramythia was a small surcharge paid on top of the tax; the Coptic verso docket is partly garbled and its translation is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über Steuern). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] χμγ τῷ ἐλλογιμωτάτῳ σχολαστικῷ Ἰωάννῃ υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς μακαρίας μνήμης Ταυρίνου· ἐδεξάμην καὶ ἐπληρώθην παρὰ τῆς σῆς παιδεύσεως κωμοκατοίκων Πτεμενκύρκεως πρώτης ἰνδικτίονος δημοσίου ἀννωνῶν καὶ κανονικῶν ὑπὲρ ὀνόματος Φιρμι Παχυμίου χρυσοῦ κεράτια εἴκοσι καὶ παραμυθείας κεράτιον …
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