A receipt in which Alexas and Daniel, stewards of the monastery of Leukogion, acknowledge full payment from the priest Herakleites of public taxes on a landholding, covering the period up to the crops of the 10th indiction. It is dated Phamenoth 14 of a ninth indiction and comes from the Herakleopolite nome.
In English machine translation
† We, Alexas and Daniel, stewards of the monastery of Leukogion, have received and been paid in full by Herakleites, priest, from […] for the public taxes of my holding […] we received and were paid in full the same […] customary […] for the period up to the crops of the 10th indiction. For the tenth indiction we have received your share in full. Written in the month of Phamenoth 14 of the ninth indiction.
† Written by me, Pekysios, secretary.
The text is written in non-standard Greek, shifting between singular and plural. The 'public taxes' (demosia) were state dues on the holding, which the monastery apparently collected or paid on the payer's behalf.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.