Receipts for dike tax paid by two brothers at Soknopaiou Nesos TM 9776Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites, Ägypten)175 - 176 (?)

Tax receipt from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum recording that the brothers Tesenouphis and Herieus each paid 6 drachmas 4 obols in dike tax, with additional charges, for the 33rd year of Commodus. The payment is dated by the short-lived usurper Pescennius Niger, and a second receipt dated to a year 16 of joint emperors follows.

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The recorded date 175-176 conflicts with the text: a dating by Pescennius Niger (AD 193) and payment for Commodus' 33rd year (192/3) point to June 193, and year 16 of joint emperors may refer to Septimius Severus and Caracalla (207/8). The dike tax (chomatikon) paid for upkeep of the irrigation embankments.

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). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.