Tax Receipt
Receipt for tax payment
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42381
Receipt of Hermogenes, assistant of the tax collectors, for 8 drachmas TM 42381UnknownIInd century A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt in which Hermogenes, assistant to the tax collectors (praktores), acknowledges receiving 8 drachmas, noting the payer's claim that Chaireas had already received 12 drachmas. It is dated Year 7, Phaophi 2, in the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
Year 7, Phaophi 2.
I, Hermogenes, assistant of the tax collectors, have received 8 drachmas, in addition to which you say that Chaireas has received 12 drachmas.
The tax is not named. The scribe started writing 'obols' and deleted it before writing the sum in drachmas.
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.
o.mich.1.6
ἔτους ζ Παῶφι β. ἔσχον Ἑρμογένης βοηθὸς τῶν πρακτόρων δραχμὰς η. μεθʼ ἃς δὲ φὴς ἐσχηκέναι τὸν Χαιρέαν δραχμὰς ιβ.