A tax receipt recording payments by Sempronius Gemellus to Protion and his fellow collectors of money taxes, covering the apomoira on garden land, the naubion and the eparourion, with the usual surcharges and exchange fees. It was written in the 18th year of Antoninus Pius (AD 154-155), probably at Dionysias in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year eighteen of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, […]
[…] Sempronius Gemellus son of An[…] paid to Protion and associates, collectors of money taxes, […] for the apomoira on garden land of year 17, […]
2 drachmas 3 obols, total 2 drachmas 3 obols; for naubion 1 1/2 obols, with additional charges of 3 obols 2 chalkoi; for eparourion 1 drachma 4 obols, total 1 drachma 4 obols, with additional charges of 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi, exchange fee 1/2 obol]
[…] of Dionysias […]
[…] additional charges 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi. The same […]
3 drachmas 2 obols, total 3 drachmas 2 obols […]
2 drachmas 4 obols, total 2 drachmas 4 obols, additional charges 1 obol 2 chalkoi, exchange fee […]
[…] additional charges 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi […]
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The apomoira was a tax on vineyards and gardens, the naubion a tax for dike and canal maintenance, and the eparourion a tax on land by the aroura. Much of the wording, including the tax names in the opening lines, is restored by the editor.
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 Garden 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.