A report sent by Abous and Pakysis, collectors of money taxes at Soknopaiou Nesos, to Dionysios, strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome. It itemizes the sums they paid into the public bank during the month of Phaophi of year 16, totalling 1,200 drachmas. It is dated 10 November 207.
In English machine translation
To Dionysios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division,
from Abous and Pakysis, collectors of money taxes of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos.
Specification of the collection of the sums paid into the public bank for the reckoning of the month of Phaophi of the current 16th year. They are as follows:
for year 15, rent of [...] 100 drachmas
rent of the dues of the painters (?) 200 drachmas
of the priests likewise [...] drachmas [...]
revenues from building-plot receipts …
philanthropon for the village scribe, drachmas …
Total on the specification: 1,200 drachmas.
Year 16 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Hathyr 13.
A diastole is a formal specification breaking a payment down into its individual tax headings. The word read as 'chesōn' in the first entry is unclear, and 'painters' in the second rests on a restoration.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.