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Οὐαλερίων καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ μισθωταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπίωνος γραμματέως. διέγραψε Φανώφιος ὑπὲρ χειροναξίου τρίτου ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δέκα δύο γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιβ. ἔτους δ Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Μεχὶρ ιη.
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Receipt for trade tax paid at the sacred gate of Syene TM 18293Elephantine oder Syene13. Febr. 120
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A tax receipt issued by Valerion and his fellow tax-farmers of the sacred gate of Syene, through their scribe Sarapion, acknowledging that Phanophis paid 12 drachmas for the trade tax of Hadrian's third year. It is dated 13 February 120, from Elephantine or Syene.
In English machine translation
Valerion and his associates, [lessees] of the sacred gate of Syene, through Sarapion, scribe.
Phanophis has paid for the trade tax of the third year of Hadrian the lord twelve drachmas, total 12 drachmas. Year 4 of Hadrian the lord, Mecheir 18.
The cheironaxion was a tax on trades and crafts; it was collected here by the lessees of the 'sacred gate', a customs and tax station at Syene. The payment for year 3 was made in year 4, i.e. in arrears.
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 χειρονάξιον)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.