Tax Receipt
Tax receipt for two separate payments of 4 drachmas by the same person
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18295
Receipt for two merismos payments by Pakteutes TM 18295From Apollonopolis (Edfu)4 November, 122 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording two payments of 4 drachmas each by Pakteutes son of Ereson toward the merismos tax for the 7th year of Hadrian. The payments were made on Phaophi 1 and Hathyr 8, at Apollonopolis (Edfu) in AD 122.
In English machine translation
Pakteutes son of Ereson, grandson of Gorsenouphis,
for the merismos of year 7 of Hadrian the lord,
4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas. Year 7, Phaophi 1,
Hathyr 8, for the merismos, 4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas.
The merismos was a tax levied as an apportioned share, often to cover shortfalls in other revenues. The date given corresponds to the second payment, Hathyr 8.
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 μερισμός)). 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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Πακτεύτης Ἐρέσωνος Γορσενούφιος μερισμοῦ ζ ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δραχμὰς δ γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ. ἔτους ζ Φαῶφι α, Ἁθὺρ η μερισμοῦ δραχμὰς δ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ.