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A fragmentary tax receipt recording several payments by a taxpayer named Hera[…] to the money-tax collectors Dioskoros and associates, including dike tax, tower-guard tax and naubion. It dates to year 19 of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus (AD 179) in the Arsinoite nome.
The naubion was a tax for the upkeep of dikes and canals, here the rate charged on katoikic (settler) land. The magdolophylakes tax paid for guards of watchtowers.
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 Dike Tax and Other Taxes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
… δραχμὴν μίαν ὀβολὸν, γίνεται δραχμὴ α ὀβολὸς, χωμάτων ὁμοίως δραχμὰς ἓξ τετρώβολον, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ϛ τετρώβολον καὶ προσδιαγραφόμενα Τῦβι θ Διοσκόρῳ καὶμετόχοις πράκτορσινἀργυρικῶν […] δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ, μαγδωλοφυλάκων […] δραχμὰς ἑπτὰ τριώβολον, γίνονται δ…
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