A tax receipt issued by Victor, gold-buyer of the Thebaid, to the villagers of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, who paid through Ioannes the receiver 114 solidi and 18 carats for the third instalment of gold and annona taxes of the ninth indiction.
In English machine translation
[recto]
The people of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome have paid, through Ioannes the receiver, on account of the canonical and all kinds of gold taxes and the annona items of the third instalment of the ninth indiction, 110 gold solidi of full weight, simple, and for […] of the same third instalment of the ninth indiction, 4 gold solidi, 18 carats; total 114 gold solidi, 18 carats, of full weight, simple. And for your security and that of the public account I have made this receipt with my signature, as stated above.
I, Victor, provincial gold-buyer of the province of the Thebaid, have made this receipt for the 114 solidi, 18 carats, for the third instalment of the ninth indiction, as stated above.
[verso]
Receipt of the gold-buyer Victor, third instalment of the canonical taxes […] ninth indiction, 114 solidi, 18 carats, simple.
The chrysones (gold-buyer) was the official responsible for collecting tax gold; 'simple' (haplа) refers to the standard of the solidi. The ninth indiction fits 545/6, but the date is marked uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Autre quittance). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.