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An ostracon receipt from Thebes in which Apollonios and his partners, supervisors of the agoranomia tax for year 24 of Antoninus Pius, acknowledge payment of 4 drachmas from a man whose name begins Pana-. A second payment of 4 drachmas is added on Pauni 2 of year 1 (27 May 161), signed by Apollonios son of Dioskoros through his son.
The agoranomia tax was a charge connected with the market office that registered contracts; 'supervisors' (epiteretai) were the tax collectors responsible. Year 1 refers to the first year of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, giving the date 27 May 161.
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 a Money 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.
Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ μέτοχοι ἐπιτηρηταὶ τέλους ἀγορανομίας τοῦ κδ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Πανα…… …… ἔσχομεν ὑπὲρ … σοῦ δραχμὰς δ. ἔτους κδ Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἁδριανοῦ γ… …… […] ἄλλας Παῦνι β τοῦ α ἔτους δραχμὰς δ. Ἀπολλώνιος Διοσκόρου διὰ υἱοῦ σεσημείωμαι.
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