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A tax receipt from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, dated to year 22 of Hadrian (AD 137-138). It records payments by Pnepheros and Phasi[…] to Protarchos, overseer of the tax on weavers, in instalments of 4 drachmas totalling 16 drachmas.
The gerdiakon was a tax levied on weavers; the epiteretes was the official supervising its collection. Several words, including what the payments were for, are illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Geldsteuerquittungen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
κβ ἔτους Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Πρωτάρχῳ ἐπιτηρητῇ γερδιακοῦ … τῶν … Ἀρσι…[…]α……… διὰ Κ…… χειριστοῦ Πνεφερῶτι Πετ[…]εο… καὶ Φασι ἀπὸ Φιλαδελφίας διέγραψεν ὑπὲρ αλ κβ ἔτους … δραχμὰς δ καὶ … δραχμὰς δ γίνονται δραχμαὶ η καὶ ἄλλας δραχμὰς δ γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιβ […]… δραχμὰς δ γίνονται …
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