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Receipt for the public palm grove tax TM 24238Elephantine

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An ostracon receipt from Elephantine issued by the two collectors of money taxes, through their assistant Petorzmethes, for a payment toward the price of produce of the public palm grove, also made in the name of Pachnoumis son of Amphiomis. It dates to the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

In English machine translation

Valerius Serenus and Palachemis, the 2 collectors of money taxes of Elephantine, through Petorzmethes, assistant. […] has paid […] for the price of the public palm grove, crop of […], and in the name of Pachnoumis son of Amphiomis […] Year […] of Antoninus and Verus, the Caesars, the lords […]

The collectors' names and much of the text are restored from parallel receipts; the payer's name and the exact year are lost. The date range is inferred from the joint reign named in the text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Reçu pour la taxe sur la palmeraie publique). 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 · Elephantine

Οὐαλέριος Σερῆνος καὶ Παλαχῆμις οἱ β πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης διὰ Πετορζμήθου βοηθοῦ. διέγραψεν[…]ὑπὲρ τιμῆς δημοσίου φοινικῶνος γενήματος […]καὶ ὀνόματος Παχνοῦμις Ἀμφιώμιος[…]ἔτους[…] Ἀντωνίνου καὶ Οὐήρου Καισάρων τῶν κυρίων[…]