Receipt of money tax
Receipt for payment of apotakta by a Soterichos
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42617
Receipt for payment of apotakta through the elders of Dionysias TM 42617probably Dionysias, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D. (February 24, 207 or February 25, 268[?])
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An ostracon receipt recording that Soterichos son of Parakannes paid 16 drachmas toward the apotakta, a fixed assessment, through the village elders of Dionysias for regnal year 14. Payment was made on Mecheir 30 of year 15, in the 3rd century AD, probably at Dionysias in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Soterichos son of Parakannes has paid for the apotakta, through the elders of the village of Dionysias, for the 14th year,
in the 15th year, Mecheir 30, sixteen drachmas, 16 dr.
Apotakta were fixed lump-sum assessments, here apparently collected through the village elders; there is no exact English equivalent. The regnal year 15 fits either Septimius Severus (207) or Gallienus (268), hence the two possible dates.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt of money tax). 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.2.752
διέγραψε Σωτήριχος Παρακάννητος ὑπὲρ ἀποτάκτων διὰ πρεσβυτέρων ιδ ἔτους κώμης Διονυσιάδος ιε ἔτους Μεχεὶρ λ δραχμὰς δεκαέξ, δραχμὰς ιϛ.