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Fragment of a series of money-tax receipts recording payments of 4 drachmas at a time, dated to year 2 of the emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 138-139). It comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
The text is badly damaged; the name of the tax and of the payer are lost. The verb read as 'has leased' suggests the tax may have been collected by a tax farmer.
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.
[… 5 lines lost …] καὶ ὁμοίως … … καὶ […]φη δραχμάς … … προσδιοικήσῃ … […]μεμίσθωται ἄλλας δραχμὰς τέσσαρας δραχμαὶ δ [… 1 line lost …] […]ὁμοίως τὰς λοιπὰς τοῦ τέλους …ρης… καὶ … β ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου τοῦ κυρίου […]…[…] τέσσαρας καὶ ἄλλας τέσσαρας γίνονται δραχμαὶ η ε…… τέσσαρας, δ…
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