A tax receipt recording that a man paid 79 drachmas to the collector of money taxes for arrears of the 16th year owed on properties held as security for debt (confiscated property). It notes that the payer was issued this receipt once only, since he claimed an earlier receipt had been lost.
In English machine translation
Year 17 of Imperator Caesar […]ianus Augustus, Pharmouthi 8. A[…] paid to the collector of money taxes […] once, not having used another receipt because he says it was lost, Antoninus (?), for the arrears of the 16th year from the properties held in debt, 79 drachmas, total 79 drachmas.
Charge for the receipt.
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The emperor's name is damaged (ending in -ianus), so the exact year cannot be fixed; Hadrian is a likely candidate. 'Properties in debt' (hypochreia) refers to estates confiscated or held by the state for unpaid obligations, whose rents were collected as revenue.
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 Rent of Confiscated Property). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.