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Fragmentary tax receipts from Karanis recording payments of crown tax (stephanikon) to the collector Zosimos and his colleagues. One entry records that Longinas paid 20 drachmas in year 2 of Elagabalus (AD 218-219).
The emperor named Marcus Aurelius Antoninus here is Elagabalus. The crown tax was originally a 'voluntary' gift of gold crowns to rulers that became a regular levy.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Crown Tax). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] ἄλλας δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ […] ἔτους β Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς Σεβαστοῦ,[…] η. διέγραψε Ζωσίμῳ καὶ μετόχοις πράκτορσιν στεφανικῶν Καρανίδος Λογγινᾶς ὑπὲρ στεφανικοῦ δραχμὰς εἴκοσι, γίνονται δραχμαὶ κ
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