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Receipt for the diagraphe tax paid by a cake-maker TM 21276Oxyrhynchos (?)24. Nov. 577

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A tax receipt in which Justus, a collector, acknowledges receiving 5 carats from Ptolemaios, a cake-maker of the quarter of Apollo, paid through Stephanos, for the second installment of the diagraphe tax of the tenth indiction. It was written on 28 Hathyr of the eleventh indiction, AD 577, probably at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[verso] † I, Justus, collector, have received from you, Ptolemaios, cake-maker, from the quarter of Apollo, for the 2nd installment of the diagraphe of the tenth indiction, through Stephanos, five carats, total 5. Written in the month of Hathyr, 28, indiction 11 […] [recto] [… ? lines lost …] [… 2 lines lost …]

The diagraphe was a Byzantine-period tax assessment paid in installments; a carat (keration) was a small fraction of a gold solidus. The payment for the tenth indiction was made in the eleventh, so it was in arrears.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ricevuta per la διαγραφή). 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 · 24. Nov. 577 · Oxyrhynchos (?)

[v] † ἔσχον ἐγὼ Ἰοῦστος ὑποδέκτηςπαρὰ σοῦ Πτολεμαίου πλακουντοποιοῦ ἀπὸ λαύρας Ἀπόλλωνος ὑπὲρ β διαγραφῆς δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος διὰ Στεφάνου κεράτια πέντε γίνεται ε ἐγράφη μηνὶ Ἁθὺρ κη ἰνδικτίονος ια …… [r] [… ? lines lost …] [… 2 lines lost …]