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An order from two village headmen (protokometai), Charisios and Bottos, to the tax receiver Ioannes to pay out one gold solidus less 1 3/4 carats from the public tax receipts of the first indiction. It is dated Thoth 18 and comes from Aphrodites Kome in the Antaiopolite nome.
The protokometes was a leading village official responsible for tax matters; the amount is expressed as a solidus minus carats (1/24 of a solidus) by the goldsmiths' weight standard. The number 16 on the verso is perhaps a filing number.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for payment from village treasury). 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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