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A tax receipt in which Patermouthios, an ironsmith, is acknowledged as having paid 3 gold solidi and 14 3/4 carats toward the public taxes of the third indiction. It is dated Epeiph 3 of the fourth indiction and confirmed by Celestinus and Euboulos, from Egypt in the 7th to 8th century AD.
Line 4 is garbled in the text and its sense (a surcharge per solidus fixed by regulation) is uncertain. 'Demosia' refers to the public taxes on land and persons; the solidus was divided into 24 carats.
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 Demosia). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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