Record of Payment of Money Tax
Record of (or receipt for) payments of the sales tax on the purchase of a vacant lot at Tebtynis
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25171
Receipt for sales tax on a vacant lot at Tebtynis TM 25171Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Early) Ist century A.D.[?]
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Record of payment of the sales tax by Dionysios son of Sarapion on a vacant building lot at Tebtynis, which he bought from the brothers Herakleides and Didymos, sons of Didymos and Thaus. The price was given in copper talents. It dates to the early 1st century AD, from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
From Dionysios son of Sarapion, the tax on a vacant lot in Tebtynis which he said he had bought from Herakleides and Didymos, both sons of Didymos, their mother being Thaus, for […] talents of copper.
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A "vacant lot" (psilos topos) is a plot of land in a village without buildings on it. The amount of the price is lost, and the text breaks off after the payer's name is repeated.
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 the Sales Tax on a Vacant Lot). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.5.236
παρὰ Διονυσίου τοῦ Σαραπίωνος τέλος ψιλοῦ τόπου ἐν Τεβτύνει ὃν ἔφη ἠγορακέναι παρὰ Ἡρακλείδου καὶ Διδύμου ἀμφοτέρων Διδύμου μητρὸς Θαῦτος ἐν χαλκοῦ ταλάντοις … παρὰ Διονυσίου τοῦ Σαραπίωνος τ…[…] [… ? lines lost …]