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Bank receipt for sales tax on purchase of a demolished house TM 21669Theben14. März 112 v.Chr.

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A bank receipt from Hermonthis recording payment of the 10% sales tax by the brothers Panas, Harsiesis and Horos on their purchase of a ruined house for 1 bronze talent. The tax paid was 600 bronze drachmas, and the receipt is signed by the banker Dionysios. It dates to 14 March 112 BC, in the Theban region.

In English machine translation

Year 5, Mecheir 26. Paid to the bank at Hermonthis, of which Dionysios is in charge, for the 10% sales tax (enkyklion) on a purchase, according to the bank order of Psenchonsis, under which Asklepiades the controller signs: Panas son of Pechytes and Harsiesis and Horos, brothers, for a demolished house, of which the walls remain, with entrance and exit, which they bought from Pabouris and Taphiomis, children of Psenchonsis, and Petobastis son of Psenenouphis, for 1 talent of bronze; tax 600 (drachmas). Dionysios, banker.

The enkyklion was a 10% tax on sales and other transfers of property, and 600 drachmas is one tenth of the 1-talent price. The records give Thebes as provenance, but the bank itself was at Hermonthis.

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

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p.amh.2.54

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 14. März 112 v.Chr. · Theben

ἔτους ε Μεχεὶρ κϛ. τέτακται ἐπὶ τὴν ἐν Ἑρμώνθει τράπεζαν ἐφʼ ἧς διονύσιος δεκάτης ἐγκυκλίου ὠνῆς κατὰ διαγραφὴν Ψενχώνσιος ὑφʼ ἣν ὑπογράφει Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ ἀντιγραφεὺς Πανᾶς Πεχύτου καὶ Ἁρσιῆσις καὶ Ὧρος ἀδελφοὶ οἴκου καθῃρημένου οὗ οἱ τοῖχοι περίεισιν καὶ εἴσοδος καὶ ἔξοδος ὃν ἠγό…