Tax Receipt
Receipt for tax payment
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Receipt for money taxes paid at the hamlet of Nestos TM 42486Nestou epoikion, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Between) 169 A.D. 177 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Dianammon, also called Na[…], son of Zoilos, paid 4 drachmas through Nikanor to Petesouchos and his fellow collectors of money taxes at the hamlet of Nestos in the Arsinoite nome. It dates to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, between AD 169 and 177.
In English machine translation
Year […] of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus.
Dianammon also called Na[…], son of Zoilos, has paid to Petesouchos and associates, collectors of money taxes of the hamlet of Nestos, 4 drachmas,
through Nikanor, total 4 drachmas.
The regnal year is lost, so the date range rests on the emperor's titulature. The praktores argyrikon were collectors of taxes paid in money rather than in kind; the tax itself is not named.
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.1.7
ἔτους[…]του Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ διέγραψε Πετεσούχῳ καὶ μετόχοις πράκτορσι ἀργυρικῶν Νέστου ἐποικίου Διανάμμων ὁ καὶ Να[…] Ζωίλου δραχμὰς τέσσαρας διὰ Νικάνορος, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ.