One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24224
Receipt for the levy for absconded men paid at the gate of Syene TM 24224Elephantine oder Syene30. Nov. 170
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An ostracon receipt issued by the overseers of the sacred gate of Syene, through their assistant, confirming that a man paid the levy charged to cover men who had fled (merismos anakechorekoton) for years 8 and 9. It is dated to 30 November 170 under Marcus Aurelius, from Elephantine or Syene.
In English machine translation
[Stephanos and his associates], overseers of the sacred [gate of Syene, through Serenos], assistant. […]chem has paid on account of the me[rismos] [of men who have fled], for the receipts (?) of year 8 and year 9 […].
[Year 11 of Aurelius] Antoninus
[Caesar the lord], Hadrian 4.
The merismos anakechorekoton was a surcharge spread over the remaining taxpayers to make up the taxes of men who had fled their villages. Much of the formula and the regnal year are restored from parallel receipts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für μερισμὸς ἀνδρῶν ἀνακεχωρηκότων). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.joerdens.18
Στέφανος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπιτηρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλης Σοήνης διὰ Σερήνου βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν […]χημ ὑπὲρ μερισμῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀνακεχωρηκότων λήμματος η ἔτους καὶ θ ἔτους […] ἔτους ια Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἁδριανοῦ δ.