Receipt for Dike tax
Receipt for the dike tax (chomatikon), missing the name of the taxpayer and cancelled with criss crossing lines
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Receipt for dike tax paid to Sarapion and associates TM 21358perhaps Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJanuary-February, 51 A.D.
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A receipt recording payment of 6 drachmas 4 obols in dike tax for the tenth year of Claudius, paid to the tax collector Sarapion and his associates. It was issued in Mecheir of Claudius' eleventh year (AD 51), probably at Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 11 of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Mecheir. Paid to Sarapion and associates, for dike tax of the 10th year, 6 drachmas 4 obols, total 6 drachmas 4 obols […]
The dike tax (chomatikon) paid for the upkeep of the irrigation embankments. The receipt omits the taxpayer's name and was cancelled with criss-crossing lines.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Dike Tax). 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.mich.10.597
ἔτους ἑνδεκάτου Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος Μεχεὶρ. διέγραψε Σαραπίωνι καὶ μετόχοις χωμάτων δεκάτου ἔτους δραχμὰς ἓξ τετρώβολον, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ϛ τετρώβολον[…]