Receipt for tax arrears, river-guard tax and diplōn TM 24273Elephantine107 - 114

An ostracon receipt issued by the tax collectors Hermaios, Panapis and Pelaias recording that a taxpayer paid arrears of a tax, together with the river-guard tax and the diplōn charge. It is dated Tybi 28 in a year of Trajan and comes from Elephantine.

In English machine translation

The potamophylakis was a tax funding the river police; the diplōn ("double") was a supplementary charge whose exact nature is debated.

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 diverses taxes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.