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Receipt for merismoi paid to the money-tax collectors of Elephantine TM 24738Elephantine17. Juli 149

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Ostracon tax receipt issued by the money-tax collectors Domitius Phannianus and Germanus of Elephantine, recording a payment of 4 drachmas for the merismoi (apportioned taxes) of year 12 of Antoninus Pius. The payer's name is partly illegible; his mother was Thinnesis.

In English machine translation

Domitius Phannianus and Germanus, collectors of money taxes of Elephantine. … paid, son of …chemis, his mother being Thinnesis, 4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas, for the merismoi of year 12 of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Epeiph 23.

Merismoi were taxes apportioned among the inhabitants of a district, with no exact English equivalent. The second collector's title is restored.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 17. Juli 149 · Elephantine

Δομίτιος Φαννιανὸς καὶ Γερμανὸς πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν Ἐλεφαντίνης διέγραψεν …… χήμεως μητρὸς Θιννήσεως δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ ὑπὲρ μερισμῶν ιβ ἔτους Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἐπεὶφ κγ.