Tax Receipt
Tax receipt issued by bankers of the Oxyrhynchite nome to a woman who belonged perhaps to the Alexandrian socio-economic elite
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Public bank receipt for a payment by Aurelia Heliodora TM 21389Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt308 A.D.
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A receipt issued by Aurelius Eudaimon alias Helladios, a town councillor and banker of the public bank of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelia Heliodora for a payment of more than 4,000 silver drachmas. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in late AD 308.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of our masters Diocletian, father of the emperors, for the 10th time, and Galerius Valerius Maximianus Augustus for the 6th time.
Aurelius Eudaimon also called Helladios, former gymnasiarch, councillor of the city of the Oxyrhynchites and banker of the public funds of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelia Heliodora, greetings. You have paid to us at the public bank of the nome, for the account (?) of […] of the month of September of the current 17th and 5th year, 4,[…]50 drachmas of silver, total 4,[…] drachmas, […] you sent (?) […] 6.
The 'drachmas of silver' are a conventional accounting unit of the debased 4th-century currency. The double regnal year (17th and 5th) reflects the joint reigns of the emperors then in power.
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.
p.mich.15.720
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν βασιλέων τὸ ι καὶ Γαλερίου Οὐαλερίου Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ τὸ ϛ. Αὐρήλιος Εὐδαίμων ὁ καὶ Ἑλλάδιος γυμνασιαρχήσας βουλευτής τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν πόλεως καὶ δημοσίων χρημάτων τραπεζίτης Ὀξυρυγχίτου Αὐρηλίᾳ Ἡλιοδώρᾳ χαίρειν. διέγραψας …