Receipt for taxes on uncultivated land paid by Aurelia Thekla TM 21446Hermopolites20. Sept. 455

A receipt in which several villagers of the Hermopolite nome, acting jointly, acknowledge that Aurelia Thekla, represented by her curator the priest Ioannes, has paid them the public taxes on her land in their village, amounting to 2 gold solidi less 2 carats, for the ninth indiction. It is dated 20 September 455.

In English machine translation

The opening χμγ is usually read as the Christian isopsephic symbol (643 = 'God help'), not a date. The word ὑποσταγματικης is unclear; it seems to describe the village's fiscal subordination (hypostagma), and the translation there is tentative.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Empfangsbestätigung über Steuern). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.