Receipt of money tax
Receipt for tax payment by a Pleein
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42646
Receipt for a payment of four drachmas by Plen son of Mysthes TM 42646probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Middle of the) IIIrd century A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that Plen son of Mysthes paid 4 drachmas for year 3, probably a tax payment. It dates to around the middle of the 3rd century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Plen son of Mysthes has paid for year 3 four drachmas, total 4 drachmas.
The receipt does not name the tax being paid. The payer's name is spelled Plen in the text but given as Pleein in one catalogue description.
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.2.770
διέγραψε Πλῆν Μύσθου ὑπὲρ γ ἔτους δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ.