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A tax receipt recording that Aurelia Tekoris of the village of Soknopaiou Nesos paid 80 silver drachmas for the 'levy of the animals'. It was issued on 7 October 221 in the joint reign of Elagabalus and his Caesar Severus Alexander.
The merismos ton therion (levy of the animals) was a local apportioned tax, probably connected with sacred animals or hunting of wild beasts; its exact purpose is debated. The emperor named Marcus Aurelius Antoninus here is Elagabalus.
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 Merismos tōn Theriōn). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους ε Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐσεβοῦς Εὐτυχοῦς καὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀλεξάνδρου Καίσαρος Σεβαστῶν, Φαῶφι ι. διέγραψεν Αὐρήλια Τεκῶρις Τυ…[…] Ἡρακλ […] κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου μερισμοῦ τῶν θηρίων ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ὀγδοήκοντα, γίνονται δραχμαὶ π
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