Receipt for instalments of nomarchic taxes at Bakchias and Hephaistias TM 9796Bakchias oder Hephaistias (Arsinoites)30. Juni 223

A tax receipt recording a series of instalment payments in drachmas made to two collectors of nomarchic taxes for the villages of Bakchias and Hephaistias in the Arsinoite nome. It dates to the second year of Severus Alexander (AD 223).

In English machine translation

Nomarchic taxes were levies collected under the supervision of the nomarch, the nome official. The payer's name and the tax type are lost in the left-hand gaps.

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