One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9613

Receipt for money-tax instalments paid by Pakysis TM 9613Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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A tax receipt from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum, dated to year 7 of Septimius Severus and Caracalla (AD 198/199). It records instalment payments in drachmas made by Pakysis, son of Tasoucharion, through the tax collector Harpalos and his associates over several months.

In English machine translation

Year 7 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Augusti, […]. Pakysis son of […], his mother being Tasoucharion, has paid through Harpalos and associates, collectors of money taxes of Soknopaiou Nesos, for syntaximon (?) […] 16 drachmas […], Phaophi […] 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas, Choiak […] drachmas […], Tybi 24 another […] drachmas […], another […] drachmas […], 12 drachmas […]

The tax name syntaximon, a poll-tax equivalent levied in the Fayum, is a restoration. Most of the right side of the text is lost, so several amounts and dates are missing.

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

bgu.11.2103

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

ἔτους ζ Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς Περτίνακος καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστῶν,[…]. διέγραψε διὰ Ἁρπάλου καὶ μετόχων πρακτόρων ἀργυρικῶν Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου Πακῦσις […]τοῦ[…], μητρὸς Τασουχαρίου, συνταξίμου[…] δραχμὰς δέκα ἕξ[…], Φαῶφι[…]δραχμὰς ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ…