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Receipt for the public palm grove tax paid through a son TM 29828ElephantineII

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Ostracon receipt from Elephantine issued by the money-tax collectors of the town quarter, led by Petorzmethis the younger. It records a payment of 60 drachmas, made by Lucill[…] through a son, toward the tax and price of the public palm grove for the produce of year 7, and declares an earlier receipt for the same sum void.

In English machine translation

Petorzmethis the younger and his associates, collectors of money taxes for the quarter of Elephantine. Lucill[…] has paid through her (?) son, for the tax and price of the public palm grove, for the produce of year 7, on account, sixty drachmas in soiled coin, total 60 drachmas, the earlier receipt for the same drachmas being void. Year 8, Hathyr 16. […]

"Soiled" (rhyparai) drachmas refers to worn or debased bronze coinage accepted at a discount. The payer's name is damaged and its ending is uncertain, so it is unclear whether the son belongs to a man or a woman, and one final line is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Reçu pour une taxe et la taxe sur la palmeraie publique). 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 · II · Elephantine

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