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Two tax receipts written on the same sheet under Diocletian and Maximian. The first records payment by Heron and Satabous of 416 drachmas toward the price of wine for the annona in the name of Claudius Syrion; the second, years later, records payment by Aion and his brothers of 400 drachmas for wine and oil, plus a delivery of 36 pounds of hay and chaff.
The two receipts are dated separately, the first to AD 287 and the second to AD 293. The annona was a tax in kind for supplying the state and army, here commuted partly into money; epigraphe means a tax assessment.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipts for Various Taxes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους γ ἔτους καὶ β ἔτους τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν Μεσορὴ ιε. διέγραψαν Ἥρων καὶ Σαταβοῦς εἰς λόγον τιμῆς οἴνου ἀννώνης τετάρτης ἑξαμήνου ὀνόματος Κλαυδίου Συρίωνος … νομαχο δραχμὰς τετρακοσίας δεκαέξ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ υιϛ. Αὐρήλιος Διοσκορ… ιε. ἔτους …
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