A Theban bank receipt recording that Tsenyris daughter of Thotsytes paid the enkyklion (sales/transfer tax) on a house in the Chrysopolis quarter of Diospolis Magna valued at 200 drachmas. The payment, made to the royal bank under the banker Psenchonsis, was checked by agents of the topogrammateus and another official, in 209 BC.
In English machine translation
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Year 14, Thoth 7
[2]
Year 14, Thoth 7. There has been paid to the bank in Diospolis the Great, of which Psenchonsis is banker, for the king, in accordance with the payment order from Protarchos the chief of police, under which Harnouphis the topogrammateus signs, by Tsenyris daughter of Thotsytes, for a house in Diospolis the Great in Chrysopolis, in the western part of the wall of the Apollonieion, the valuation being 200 drachmas, the amount due to the enkyklion tax in accordance with the published ordinance: on the valuation of 200 drachmas, the tax of one-eighth drachma 2 1/4 obols in bronze at 26 1/2 obols (per stater), 16 drachmas 4 1/2 obols; at par, 8 (drachmas) 2 1/4 obols.
Diokles, clerk.
I, Heroides, agent of Harnouphis the topogrammateus, have checked the tax on the 200 drachmas at 26 1/2 obols: (on) 200 drachmas, exchange 8 (drachmas) 2 1/4 obols.
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I, Heliodoros, agent of Dionysios […], have checked the tax [on the 200 drachmas at 26 1/2 obols, 16 (drachmas) 4 1/2 obols], exchange 8 (drachmas) 2 1/4 obols.
The enkyklion was a tax on transfers of property; here it is calculated in bronze with an exchange rate (agio) against silver. The figures for the tax rate are given in compressed abbreviated form and their exact reading is somewhat uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as keiner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.