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Receipt for tax on palm groves TM 24648Theben

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Ostracon tax receipt from Thebes recording that Senphthoumonthes, daughter of Petechonsis, paid 7 drachmas 3 obols, plus the usual surcharges, in tax on palm groves for year 13 of Nero. It is dated Kaisareios 26 of year 14 (August AD 68) and signed by the official Kephalos.

In English machine translation

Senphthoumonthes daughter of Petechonsis has paid for the palm groves of the 13th year, for 1/4 1/8 aroura, 7 drachmas 3 obols, total 7 dr. 3 ob., and the additional charges on these. Year 14 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, month of Kaisareios 26. I, Kephalos, have signed.

Kaisareios is the Roman-era name for the Egyptian month Mesore. The 'additional charges' (prosdiagraphomena) were standard surcharges paid on top of the tax itself.

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 Palms Tax). 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 · Theben

διαγέγραφε Σενφθουμώνθης Πετεχώνσιος ὑπὲρ φοινικώνων ιγ ἔτους ἀρούρης δ η δραχμὰς ἑπτὰ τριώβολον, γίνονται ζ τριώβολον καὶ τούτων προσδιαγραφόμενα. ἔτους ιδ Νέρωνος Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος μηνὸς Καισαρείου κϛ. Κέφαλος σεσημείωμαι.