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A fragmentary tax receipt dated to year 10 of Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta (AD 201-202), recording payments of 8 drachmas made to a Sarapion and colleagues. The name of the payer and the tax are lost.
The word arithmesis refers to a payment instalment or counted sum in tax collection; the exact tax is not preserved.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung). 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 δεκάτου Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστῶν καὶ Πουβλίου Σεπτιμίου Γέτα Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ[…] διέγραψεν Σαραπίωνι καὶ μετ[…]…[…] […]…υρ……ρ…[…] τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ γίνονται δραχμαὶ η[…] […]… δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ γίνο…
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