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A tax receipt issued by Flavius Ioannes, pagarch of the Hermopolite nome, to Zacharias, assistant of the village of Sinalabe, acknowledging payment of 5 solidi and 6 carats in gold for the village's eumeneia levy of the 14th indiction. It was written on Epeiph 4 by the tax official Phoibammon.
The eumeneia was a late antique tax or contribution whose exact nature is uncertain; a tractator was an official handling tax collection. The signature of Flavius Ioannes is partly illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as εὐμένεια). 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] † † Φλαύιος Ἰωάννης σὺν Θεῷ ἄρχων καὶ πάγαρχος Ἑρμοπολίτου τῷ θαυμασιωτάτῳ Ζαχαρίᾳ βοηθῷ κώμης Σιναλαβη. δέδωκας ἀπὸ τῆς εὐμενείας τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια πέντε καὶ κεράτια ἕξ, γίνεται νομισμάτια ε κεράτια ϛ μόνα. ἐγράφη Ἐπεὶφ δ ιδ ἰνδ…
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