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An ostracon tax receipt from Thebes in which the collectors of money taxes, Psansnos and Kasianos, acknowledge payment of 6 drachmas 6 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi in small change for the merismoi of year 20 by a man whose name ends in -nmouthes. Kasianos signs through his son Loukas.
Merismoi were supplementary capitation levies apportioned among taxpayers to cover various deficits or costs. The 'intercalary days' (epagomenai) were the five extra days at the end of the Egyptian year, after Mesore.
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 μερισμοί). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ψανσνῶς καὶ Κασιανὸς πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν […] […]νμούθου ἔσχομεν ὑπὲρ μερισμῶν […]… κ ἔτους κέρματος δραχμὰς ἓξ ὀβολοὺς ϛ ἡμιωβέλιον χαλκοῦς 2 γίνονται κέρματος δραχμαὶ ϛ ὀβολοὶ ϛ ἡμιωβέλιον χαλκοῖ 2. ἔτους κ Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Μεσορὴ ἐπαγομένων α. Κασιανὸς διὰ Λουκᾶτος …
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