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Receipt for the price of public dates TM 18285Elephantine oder Syene29. Okt. 115

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An ostracon tax receipt issued by the collector Didymion, recording that Nebresis paid 14 drachmas as the price of dates from public palms for the 18th-year crop of Trajan, with a further 4 drachmas credited for Bienchis son of Pakteus. It was written on 29 October AD 115 at Elephantine or Syene.

In English machine translation

Didymion, collector. Nebresis son of Zmen[…] has paid for the price of public dates of the crop of year 18 of Trajan the lord 14 drachmas, total 14 drachmas, and for […] […] Bienchis son of Pakteus 4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas. Year 19 of Trajan Aristos (?) the lord, Hathyr 1.

The tax for the 'price of public dates' was a charge on the produce of state-owned date palms. 'Aristou' in the regnal formula is presumably the scribe's form of Trajan's title Optimus (Greek Aristos).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abgabenquittung (für τιμὴ δημοσίον 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 · 29. Okt. 115 · Elephantine oder Syene

Διδυμίων πράκτωρ. διέγραψε Νεβρῆσις Ζμεν[…] ὑπὲρ τιμῆς δημοσίου φοίνικος γενήματος ιη ἔτους Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα τέσσαρας γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιδ καὶ ὑπὲρ […] […] Βιῆγχις Πακτεῦτος δραχμὰς τέσσαρας γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ. ἔτους ιθ Τραιανοῦ Ἀρίστου τοῦ κυρίου Ἁθὺρ α.