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Receipt recording that Philoxenos son of Nearchos paid two gold solidi on behalf of the hamlet of Apollo for the upkeep of the royal dykes and for frankincense, for the seventh indiction. It was signed by the supervisor Theon in the Oxyrhynchite nome on 25 May 453.
The year is given in the Oxyrhynchite era (years 129 and 98). The word read as 'small statues' (xoidia) is uncertain in meaning.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax - 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.
παρέσχεν Φιλόξενος Νεάρχου ὑπὲρ ἐποικίου Ἀπόλλωνος ὑπὲρ χωμάτων βασιλικῶν καὶ λιβάνου ὑπὲρ ξοιδίων δύο ἑβδόμης ἰνδικτίονος εἰς ὕδατα ὀγδόης χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια δύο, γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια β μόνα. ἔτους ρκθ ϙη, Παχὼν λ. Θέων ἐπιμελητὴς σεσημείωμαι
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