Receipt for enkyklion tax on a house at Philadelpheia TM 2459Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites)

A bank receipt from Krokodilopolis in the Arsinoite nome for payment of the enkyklion, the tax on property transfers, on a house in Philadelpheia valued at 100 drachmas. The house had been registered before the oikonomos Kallikrates and the royal scribe Imouthes, and the payer also paid interest, apparently for late payment under a published royal decree.

In English machine translation

The enkyklion was a sales tax on transfers of property; 'from prior seizure' (ek prokatalepseos) seems to refer to property acquired by preemptive occupation or claim. The Ptolemaic regnal year is not specified 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 A receipt for ENKYKLION). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.