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Receipt for canonical and gold taxes paid by the village of Aphrodite TM 19680Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)539 - 540 (?)

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A receipt issued by Heliodoros, provincial collector of the gold tax for the Thebaid, to the villagers of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome. It acknowledges payment, through the village tax receiver, of 134 1/2 gold solidi toward the canonical and gold taxes of the first installment of the third indiction, probably AD 539/540.

In English machine translation

[† Have paid] the people of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, through the [most admirable Ioannes, receiver] of [the same] village, on account of the canonical and gold taxes of the first installment of the third indiction, 134 1/2 gold solidi of full weight, simple, total 134 1/2 gold solidi of full weight, simple; and for your security and that of the public account I have made this receipt with my signature, as aforesaid. † I, Heliodoros, ethnikos (gold-tax collector) of the province of the Thebaid, have made the receipt for the 134 1/2 solidi, full, simple, as aforesaid.

An 'entagion' is a formal tax receipt; 'ethnikos' here denotes a provincial official charged with collecting the gold tax (chrysonēs). The name of the village receiver Ioannes is a restoration.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gold taxes (to a village)). 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 · 539 - 540 (?) · Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

† δεδώκασιν οἱ ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ διὰ τοῦ θαυμασιωτάτου Ἰωάννου ὑποδέκτου τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης εἰς λόγον κανονικῶν καὶ χρυσικῶν τίτλων πρώτης καταβολῆς τρίτης ἰνδικτίονος χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα τέσσαρα ἥμισυ εὔσταθμα ἁπλᾶ, γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια…