A receipt for payment of the crown-tax (stephanikon) by the heirs of Dionysios son of Asklepiades to the collector Plution and his associates. They paid 29 drachmas on 3 5/8 arouras of private land and 18 drachmas on account for royal land, in the joint reign of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (AD 197-200), in the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
[Year …] of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Caesars, the lords.
The heirs of Dionysios son of Asklepiades have paid to Plution and associates, collectors of the crown-tax, for 3 5/8 arouras of private land, twenty-nine drachmas, total 29 drachmas, and likewise for royal land, on account, eighteen drachmas, [total] 18 drachmas.
I, Sarapion, have signed.
The crown-tax (stephanika) was originally a contribution toward golden crowns for the emperor and here is levied on land. The regnal year number is lost, so the date can only be given as a range.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Crown - tax). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.