Tax receipt
Receipt for tax payment
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41875
Receipt for payment by a woman weaver to the nomarchy account TM 41875UnknownNovember/December 243 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that a woman weaver named Euporous paid 4 drachmas into the nomarchy account, through the collector Aurelius Didymos. It is dated to the month Choiak of year 7 of the emperor Gordian III (AD 243).
In English machine translation
Year 7 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus, Choiak, for the reckoning of Hathyr. Euporous, weaver, has paid into the account of the nomarchy, through me, Aurelius Didymos, 4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas.
The nomarchy account (nomarchia) was a fiscal account into which various taxes, including trade taxes, were paid. The payment made in Choiak was credited to the previous month, Hathyr.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax receipt). 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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ἔτους ζ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Γορδιανοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Χύακ ἀριθμήσεως Ἁθὺρ διέγραψεν Εὐποροῦς γερδίαινα εἰς τὸν τῆς νομαρχίας λόγον διʼ ἐμοῦ Αὐρηλίου Διδύμου δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ.