One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19575

Receipt for a money tax paid to the collector Sokrates TM 19575unbekannt208 - 209 (?)

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Fragment of a tax receipt dated to year 17 of Septimius Severus and Caracalla, recording a payment of 8 drachmas to Sokrates and his fellow collectors of money taxes. A second receipt that followed is entirely lost.

In English machine translation

[1] Year 17 of Lucius Septimius Severus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Augusti. To Sokrates and associates, collectors of money taxes, […] eight drachmas, dr. 8 [… 3 lines lost …] [2] [… 7 lines lost …] [… 3 lines lost …]

The praktores argyrikon were the collectors responsible for taxes paid in cash. The payer's name and the tax are illegible.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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 · 208 - 209 (?)

[1] ιζ ἔτους Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστῶν Σωκράτῃ καὶ μετόχοις πράκτορσιν ἀργυρικῶν …α……υς δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ δραχμὰς η [… 3 lines lost …] [2] [… 7 lines lost …] [… 3 lines lost …]