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Receipt for payments to supervisors of the hair-cutting and trade taxes TM 21090Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 162

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A tax receipt recording that Hergeus son of Harpagathes paid instalments of 20 drachmas each to Neilos and his fellow supervisors of the hair-cutting and trade taxes. The payments were made in Pauni of year 2 and Thoth of year 3 of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum.

In English machine translation

Year 2 of Antoninus and Verus the lords Augusti, Pauni. Hergeus son of Harpagathes has paid to Neilos and associates, supervisors of the hair-cutting (tax) and the trade tax, from what he owes of public dues, on account, 20 drachmas of dirty (coin). And in year 3, Thoth, for the second year, 20 drachmas.

"Dirty" (rhyparai) drachmas refers to debased or worn coinage, accepted at a discount. The given date covers the second payment in Thoth of year 3; the first was made in Pauni of year 2 (AD 162).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung). 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 · 29. Aug. - 27. Sept. 162 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἔτους δευτέρου Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου τῶν κυρίων Σεβαστῶν Παῦνι. διέγραψεν Νείλῳ καὶ μετόχοις ἐπιτηρηταῖς κοπῆς τριχὸς καὶ χειρωναξίου Ἐργεὺς Ἁρπαγάθου ἀφʼ ὧν ὀφείλει δημοσίων ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς εἴκοσι ῥυπαρὰς. καὶ γ ἔτους Θῶθ ὑπὲρ δευτέρου ἔτους δραχμὰς εἴκοσι .