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A receipt issued by Ioulos son of Adious to Theodoros, a nomikarios, acknowledging payment of 1 3/4 gold solidi as the customary fee owed to the assistant of the numerarius for the gold taxes and barley of the fourth indiction. It is dated Hathyr 3 of a fourth indiction, in the 6th or 7th century AD.
The synētheia was a customary fee or perquisite paid to officials on top of the tax itself. A nomikarios was a local tax official; the numerarius was an accounting officer of the administration.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Apocha). 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] † τῷ ἀδελφῷ Θεοδώρῳ νομικαρίῳ Ἴουλος Ἀδιοῦς ἔσχον παρὰ τῆς σῆς ἀρετῆς ὑπὲρ συνηθείας βοηθοῦ νουμεραρίου τῶν χρυσικῶν τῆς τετάρτης ἰνδικτίονος χρυσοῦ νομισμάτιον ἓν τέταρτον καὶ αὐτοῦ τῆς κριθῆς νομισμάτιον ἥμισυ γίνεται ʼα 𐅵 δ καὶ πρὸς ἀσφάλειαν πεποίημαι ταύτην τὴν ἀποχήν. Ἁ…
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