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A tax receipt recording that Sarapion son of Helladios, acting through the heirs of Zacharias the wool-worker and the notary Isakios, paid 2 gold solidi and 6 carats toward the public annona and canonica taxes of a fifteenth indiction year. It is countersigned by the tax official Georgios and dates to the 6th century AD.
The annona and canonica were the regular state taxes of the late Roman period, here paid in gold; a diastoleus was a fiscal official who checked and allocated payments. The relationship of the persons named in lines 2-4 is uncertain because of heavy abbreviation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Annona and Canonica). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† † δέδωκεν ὀνόματος Σαραπίων Ἑλλαδίου σὺν ὀνόματι διὰ τῶν κληρονόμων Ζαχαρίου λαναρίου διὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Ἰσακίου νοταρίου εἰς λόγον δημοσίων ἀννωνικῶν καὶ κανονικῶν πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια δύο καὶ κεράτια ἓξ, γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια β κεράτια ϛ μόνα. † Γεώρ…
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