Bank receipt for sales tax on a building plot at Pathyris TM 52Pathyris2. Mai 118 v.Chr.

Bank receipt, attached to a sale contract, recording payment of the sales tax by Nechoutes son of Horos for a vacant plot of 9 cubits at Pathyris, bought from Petearoeris son of Patous. The tax was paid at the bank in Krokodilopolis in year 52 of Ptolemy VIII (118 BC).

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Most of the receipt formula, the parties and the amounts are editorial restorations based on parallel Pathyris bank receipts; the contract it accompanied is lost. The 'enkyklion' was a 10% tax on sales.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Vente d’un terrain à bâtir). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.