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Receipt for taxes paid by the priests of Soknopaiou Nesos TM 19988Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)8. Jan. 201

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A receipt recording payments by the priests Tesenouphis son of Pakysis, Stotoetis son of Onnophris and their colleagues at Soknopaiou Nesos in January AD 201. They paid poll tax for priests beyond the authorized number, a tax on sacrifices, a sum due to the epistrategos, a gratuity for the village scribe and the epistatikon of the priests.

In English machine translation

[1] Year 9 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and ⟦Publius Septimius Geta⟧ ⟦Caesar Augustus⟧, Tybi 13, account (?) of Hadrianos. Tesenouphis son of Pakysis and Stotoetis son of Onnophris and the other priests have paid, for poll tax of those exceeding the number of the priests, for year 9, 477 (drachmas), total 477. [2] For the tax on sacrifices (?) for year 9, 185 drachmas ⟦4 1/2 obols⟧, total 185 drachmas ⟦4 1/2 obols⟧; for the sum owed to the epistrategos, 328 drachmas 2 chalkoi, total 328 drachmas 2 chalkoi; for the gratuity of the village scribe, 174 drachmas 5 obols, total 174 drachmas 5 obols; for the epistatikon of the priests, 5,500 drachmas, total 5,500 drachmas.

Geta's name and title were erased later, after his murder and damnatio memoriae in 211/212. The epistatikon was a tax paid by temples, apparently for official supervision; the reading of the 'sacrifices' tax is uncertain.

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 · 8. Jan. 201 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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