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Receipt for crown-tax payments by Septimius Alexander and his grandson TM 21897Oxyrhynchites

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Receipt from the Oxyrhynchite nome recording two payments of 40 drachmas each toward the crown tax (stephanikon) made by the councillor Septimius Alexander and his grandson of the same name. The payments, made in Choiak and Tybi of year 5 of Elagabalus with Severus Alexander as Caesar, are signed by Aurelius Besammon also called Saras.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] [… lines lost …] [recto, column 2] Year 5 of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, the Augusti, Choiak 3. Paid to the collectors of crown-tax, for the 2nd assessment of the middle toparchy, receipts of the upper toparchy, district of Isieion Pangas, by Septimius Alexander, councillor, and his grandson Septimius Alexander, on account of crown-tax, forty drachmas, total 40 drachmas. I, Aurelius Besammon also called Saras, have signed. And on the 10th of the following month Tybi, the same, another forty drachmas on account, total 40 drachmas. I, Aurelius Besammon also called Saras, assistant (?), have signed. [… 11 lines lost …]

The crown tax (stephanikon) was originally a gift of gold crowns to the emperor, later a regular levy. The verso of this papyrus carries a corn account, hence the combined catalogue title.

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: Account of Corn). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchites

[r,1] [… ? lines lost …] [r,2] ε ἔτους Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀλεξάνδρου Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶν Χοίακ γ. διέγραψανπράκτορσι στεφανικῶν ὑπὲρ β ἐπιμερισμοῦ μέσης τοπαρχίας λημμάτων ἄνω τοπαρχίας Ἰσίου Παγγᾶ τόπων Σεπτίμιος Ἀλέξανδρος βουλευτὴς κα…