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Receipt for vineyard tax and survey tax paid at Bakchias TM 9691Bakchias (Arsinoites)8. - 16. Dez. 203

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A tax receipt from Bakchias in the Fayum recording that Longinia Thermoutharion paid the village money-tax collectors Orephis and his associates 10 drachmas of vineyard tax and 12 drachmas of survey tax for the 11th regnal year. It was issued in December 203 AD under Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta.

In English machine translation

[recto] Year 12 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Hadrianos […]. Paid to Orephis and associates, collectors of money taxes of the village of Bakchias, by Longinia Thermoutharion, for the vineyard tax of the 11th year, 10 drachmas, total 10 drachmas; for the survey tax of the same year, 12 drachmas, total 12 drachmas. [verso] […] Bakchias […]

Hadrianos is a month name used in the Arsinoite nome, equivalent to Choiak; the day number is lost. The 'geometria' was a land-survey tax levied on vineyards and gardens.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax Receipt). 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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bgu.13.2290

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 8. - 16. Dez. 203 · Bakchias (Arsinoites)

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