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Receipt for syntaximon and pig tax paid by Stotoetis son of Zenas TM 9797Arsinoites88 - 89

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A tax receipt from the Arsinoite nome dated to the 8th year of Domitian (AD 88/89), recording payments by Stotoetis son of Zenas. He paid installments of the syntaximon (poll tax) and other charges, apparently including the pig tax, in sums of 8 and 12 drachmas.

In English machine translation

Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, […]. Paid by Stotoetis son of Zenas, Sos… […] for the syntaximon of the same 8th year […] 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas, Choiak 30, within the account 6 [8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas] […] 8 drachmas, 1/2 obol, 2 chalkoi, 1 obol (?), total 8 drachmas [1/2 obol, 2 chalkoi, 1 obol] […] 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas, Soterios […] 12 drachmas, [total] 12 drachmas […]

The syntaximon was a fixed-rate capitation tax in the Arsinoite nome, roughly equivalent to the poll tax. The pig tax is named only in the catalogue title; it does not survive in the preserved text.

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 Syntaximon and Pig 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.

bgu.15.2533

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 88 - 89 · Arsinoites

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