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Receipt for poll tax (andrismos) paid through Menas, brother of Loukas TM 381916Hermopolites (?)VII - VIII

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A short Byzantine tax receipt recording payment, made through Menas the brother of Loukas, of 5/6 of a solidus toward the poll tax (andrismos) for a twelfth indiction year. It is signed by Dioskoros and probably comes from the Hermopolite nome, 7th-8th century AD.

In English machine translation

† Has paid, through Menas brother of Loukas, for the poll tax (andrismos) of the twelfth indiction, in cash, 1/2 1/3 solidus, only, without exchange fee […]. Any (other) receipts are invalid. † I, Dioskoros, agree.

The andrismos was a tax assessed per adult male, here paid in gold coin 'by number' (counted coins). The clause invalidating other receipts (entagia) is a standard formula of the period.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung für ἀνδρισμός). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.heid.10.456

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VII - VIII · Hermopolites (?)

† δέδωκε διὰ Μηνᾶ ἀδελφοῦ Λουκᾶ ἀπὸ ἀνδρισμοῦ δωδεκάτης ἰνδικτίωνος ἀριθμίου νομίσματος 𐅵 γ ἥμισυ τρίτον μόνον χωρὶς καταλλαγῆς δ…. ἄκυρα δὲ τὰ ἐντάγια. † Διόσκορος στοιχεῖ