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Nil return for the epistateia and sales tax at Alexandrou Nesos TM 9680Alexandru Nesos (Arsinoites)9. Juni 155

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A revenue return from Neilos and his partners, tax farmers of the epistateia tax and the ten percent sales tax at Alexandrou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome, to the strategos Onomastos. They report that no revenue came in between the 11th and 15th of Pauni in year 18 of Antoninus Pius (AD 155).

In English machine translation

To Onomastos, strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions, from Neilos and partners, [collectors (?)] of the epistateia and the tenth on sales at Alexandrou Nesos. We declare that nothing has accrued for the period from the 11th to the 15th of the month of Pauni of the present 18th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord. I, Neilos, have submitted […] […]

The epistateia was a levy connected with supervision fees, and the 'tenth on sales' was a tax on market transactions; there are no exact English equivalents. This is the first of two returns on the same papyrus.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9. Juni 155 · Alexandru Nesos (Arsinoites)

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