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A receipt for instalments of the poll tax (syntaximon) paid by Orsephis son of Harsiesis to the tax official Alkimos at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum. The payments were made in the first year of Domitian, AD 81/82, in several monthly instalments.
The syntaximon was a fixed-rate capitation tax, here paid in instalments; a cheiristes was a clerk or agent handling payments. The abbreviation after the opening date, read as 'afterwards' (meta logon), is uncertain.
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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