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Receipt for sheep-tax and pasture-tax paid to the Germanician estate TM 9812Arsinoites26. Dez. 62

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A receipt recording a series of instalments paid for the tax on sheep and the pasture tax owed to the Germanician estate, an imperial property in the Arsinoite nome. The entries run from year 8 of Claudius into the following years, with the final payment dated 26 December AD 62.

In English machine translation

[Year 8] […] of Claudius Caesar [Augustus Germanicus Imp]erator, Pharmouthi 16. [Paid] […] for the sheep-tax (phoros probaton) of the Germanician [estate] […] sixteen [drachmas], total 16 drachmas, […] 8 (?), Pauni 25 […] twenty-four [drachmas], total 24 drachmas […] sixteen [drachmas], total 16 drachmas, likewise 4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas, […] Year 9, for Year 8, another […] drachmas, total […] drachmas, for the pasture-tax (phoros nomon), Phaophi 5, another […] drachmas, total […] drachmas, […] of the month Neroneios 30, another twenty [drachmas, total 20 drachmas] […]

The opening is dated under Claudius (year 8 = AD 47/48), while the last entry, in the month Neroneios (a Neronian name for Choiak), gives the overall date of AD 62. The Germanician estate was an imperial property named after Germanicus.

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 Phoros Probatōn and Phoros Nomōn). 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.15.2549

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Dez. 62 · Arsinoites

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