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Pagarch's receipt for public taxes paid by the village of Phomosis TM 35963HermopolisVI

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A tax receipt issued by the pagarch Dorotheos to Ioannes, assistant (boethos) of the village of Phomosis, for 33 gold solidi and 17 carats paid toward the village's public taxes of the eleventh indiction. It was written on Hathyr 4 in the Hermopolite region in the 6th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] † From Dorotheos, most illustrious pagarch with God's help, to the most […] Ioannes, assistant of the village of Phomosis. You have paid from the public taxes of the same village for the eleventh indiction thirty-three solidi of gold, seventeen carats, total 33 gold solidi 17 carats only. Written Hathyr 4, [11th indiction]. † I, Dorotheos, agree to the thirty-three solidi seventeen carats only […], total 33 solidi 17 carats, as aforesaid. [verso] Receipt (entagion) of […] the count Dorotheos, eleventh indiction, Hathyr 4, 33 solidi 17 carats.

A solidus (nomisma) was the standard gold coin, divided into 24 carats (keratia). The verso docket calls the document an entagion, a term for a tax receipt, and gives Dorotheos the title count (comes).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung). 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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bgu.12.2196

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI · Hermopolis

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