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A tax receipt issued by the receiver of the gold levies for mules and for the primipilus, acknowledging that Isidoros son of Apollodoros paid his small gold contributions for the 8th indiction. It is dated Phaophi 18 and signed by a certain Didymos, from the Hermopolite nome.
The 'gold for mules' (burdones) and the 'primipilus' gold were late Roman levies paid in gold for military supply and transport. The amounts are tiny fractions of a gramma and of a solidus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über den χρυσὸς βουρδώνων καὶ πριμιπίλου). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] ὑποδέκτης χρυσοῦ βουρδώνων καὶ πριμιπίλου η ἰνδικτίονος. Ἰσιδώρῳ Ἀπολλοδώρου δέδωκας ὑπὲρ τῆς αὐτῆς η ἰνδικτίονος χρυσοῦ γράμματος ἥμισυ τρίτον τετρακαιεικοστὸν, πριμιπίλου νομισματίου τεσσερακοστόγδοον ἑκατοστοενενηκοστόδυον γίνεται χρυσοῦ βουρδώνων γράμματος 𐅵 γ κδ, πριμιπί…
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