Receipt from the reign of Hadrian, from the Arsinoite nome, issued by Asklas and a colleague, contractors of the weavers' tax on slaves, for instalments paid by Thaesis, who says she is a slave. Payments of 4 drachmas each are recorded in Mecheir, Pachon and Epeiph, and 12 drachmas in Mesore.
In English machine translation
[…] drachmas […]
[…] in full […]
Year […] of Hadrian Caesar the lord, Mecheir 4, through Asklas and […], contractors of the weavers' tax for slaves of the village of Ph[…].
[…] Thaesis, slave, as she says, of […], has paid on account 4 drachmas of silver, total 4 dr.; likewise Pachon 3, another 4 drachmas, total 4 dr.; likewise Epeiph […], another 4 drachmas, total 4 dr.; likewise Mesore […], another 12 drachmas, total 12 dr.
The tax was levied on slaves working as weavers and collected by tax farmers (misthotai). The regnal year and the village name are lost.
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 Weaver’s 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.