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Bank receipt for sales tax on a mortgaged vineyard at Psantanchnoubis TM 463LatopolisEnde II v.Chr.

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A royal bank receipt from Latopolis recording payment of the sales tax (enkyklion) on a vineyard in the village of Psantanchnoubis, which had been mortgaged under an Egyptian-language contract. The payer is Apollonios son of Ammonios and the amount is 410 drachmas; the banker is Kallias.

In English machine translation

[Year …] […] has been paid to the [bank in Latopolis], of which Kallias is banker, [to the kings, for the sales tax] […] [of year …, according] to the bank order of Theotimos [and] […] [tax-farmers], under which countersigns [Dionysios the controller (?)]: Apollonios son of Ammonios, […] [of a vineyard] lying in [the village of Psantanchnoubis in the] Arabian [district] of the Latopolite nome […] part, of a well (?) of baked [brick. Boundaries of the] vineyard: on the south, vineyard of Totoes [son of Amenothes; on the north, vineyard] of Piounsis son of [Panemgeus; on the east] […] of the vineyard; [on the west] […] [which he mortgaged] to him […] [according to] an Egyptian contract, [which was written] […] of the city […] to redeem (?) until Pachon 30 […] the [tax] from both parties […] [drachmas] four hundred and ten, total 410 […]

The enkyklion was a tax on property transfers and sales. Much of the left side is restored on the pattern of similar Ptolemaic bank receipts, including the names of the controller and the neighbours.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Staatskassenquittung über bezahlte Umsatzsteuer). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende II v.Chr. · Latopolis

ἔτους[…]τέτακται ἐπὶ τὴν ἐν Λάτωνος πόλει τράπεζαν, ἐφʼ ἧς Καλλίας, βασιλεῦσι ἐγκυκλίου[…]ἔτους κατὰ διαγραφὴν Θεοτίμου καὶ[…]τελωνῶν, ὑφʼ ἣν ὑπογράφει Διονύσιοςὁ ἀντιγραφεύς, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Ἀμμωνίου […]ἀμπελῶνος ὄντος ἐν κώμῃ Ψαντανχνούβει τῆς Ἀραβίας τοῦ Λατοπολίτου […]ου μέρους …