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A receipt issued by John, an actuarius (military paymaster official), to Antoninus, a tax receiver, acknowledging 22 gold solidi of full weight paid for the fourth instalment of the tenth indiction on behalf of the collector Kallinikos through the procurator Phoibammon. It comes from the Hermopolite nome in Byzantine Egypt.
An actuarius was an official handling military supplies and pay; prostagma here denotes a scheduled instalment of tax, and entagion is a technical term for a payment order or receipt.
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 Taxes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀντωνίνῳ ὑποδέκτῃ Ἰωάννης ἀκτουάριος· λογίζομαί σοι ὑπὲρ τετάρτου προστάγματος δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ὑπὲρ ἀπαιτητοῦ Καλλινίκου διὰ Φοιβάμμωνος προκουράτορος χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια εἴκοσι δύο εὔσταθμα, γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια κβ εὔσταθμα μόνα· Φλάουιος Ἰωάννης ἀκτο…
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