Receipt
Receipt for 48 solidi paid by Theodorus, a tax-collector.
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Receipt for tax payment on boats of the house of Timagenes TM 20790OxyrhynchusA.D. 572
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A receipt from Oxyrhynchus, dated 22 September 572, recording that an overseer of the canonical taxes paid 48 gold solidi (24 per year) for the fourth and fifth indictions on account of the many-oared boats of the house of Timagenes. It is signed by Theodoros, the overseer, and docketed on the back.
In English machine translation
† The reverend K[…], overseer of the canonical taxes, has paid on behalf of the many-oared boats […] of the house of Timagenes, for the fourth and fifth indictions, for each year 24 solidi of gold by the public standard,
making for the 2 years 48 solidi of gold by the public standard only.
Year 249 and 218, month of Thoth 25, indiction 6. For the same fourth and fifth indictions.
† I, Theodoros, overseer, have signed this receipt as stated above. †
[verso]
† Receipt of the most admirable Theodoros, overseer […] for the 4th and 5th indictions, 48 solidi of gold by the public standard.
The 'canonical taxes' (kanonika) were the regular annual imperial levies in gold; the double year numbers refer to the Oxyrhynchite eras. The name of the payer is lost, and the verso docket appears to call Theodoros himself the subject of the receipt, unlike the APIS description of him as payer.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.1.149
† κατέβαλεν ὁ αἰδέσιμος Κ[…] ἐπιμελητὴς τῶν κανονικῶν ὑπὲρ πλοίων[…] πολυκώπων οἴκου Τιμαγένους τετάρτης καὶ πέμπτης τῶν ἰνδικτιόνων ἑκάστου ἔτους χρυσοῦ δημοσίῳ ζυγῷ νομισμάτια εἴκοσι τέσσερα , γίνεται τῶν β ἐτῶν χρυσοῦ δημοσίῳ ζυγῷ νομισμάτια τεσσεράκοντα ὀκτὼ μόνα. ἔτους σμθ κ…