A fragmentary tax receipt from the Arsinoite nome, dated to year 18 of Hadrian (AD 133/134). A taxpayer, whose mother was Apollonia, paid instalments of 4 drachmas toward the syntaximon (poll tax) to the collectors of money taxes, along with small surcharges for prison guards and river guards.
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Year 18 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, […] paid to […]oros and associates, collectors of money taxes, […] of the […], his mother Apollonia, for the syntaximon of the same year […]
4 drachmas, total 4 dr.; Hadrianos […] drachmas […], total […] dr. […]
4 drachmas, total 4 dr.; Pharmouthi […] drachmas […], total […] dr. […]
4 drachmas, total 4 dr. […]
for the prison guards 1 obol, for the river guard tax 1 obol 2 chalkoi, for the double […]
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The syntaximon was the poll tax as levied in the Arsinoite nome; Hadrianos and Pharmouthi are month names, Hadrianos being an honorific month. The payments to prison guards and river guards were small add-on charges.
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 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.