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Receipt from the pagarch Atias for gold taxes paid by a village TM 9882Arsinoites22. Dez. 694

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A tax receipt issued by Flavius Atias, pagarch of the Arsinoite pagarchy, to the inhabitants of the village of Pantikou Allage. It acknowledges payment of 20 gold solidi toward the public gold taxes, delivered through the village headman Makarios, and is dated 22 December 694.

In English machine translation

† Flavius Atias, by the grace of God pagarch, to you, the people of the village of Pantikou Allage(?) of the pagarchy of the Arsinoite (nome). You have paid to us, on account of the public gold taxes of the 7th indiction, 5th instalment(?), in the month of Phaophi, the 21st, of the 8th indiction, through Makarios the headman, 20 solidi by number, as follows: in solidi 16, in half-solidi 1 solidus, in thirds 3 solidi only. Written in the month of Choiak, 26th, of the eighth indiction. Total: 20 solidi by number.

The payment of 20 solidi is broken down by coin type: 16 full solidi, half-solidi worth 1 solidus, and thirds (tremisses) worth 3 solidi. The 'thema' (here 5th) refers to an instalment of the tax assessment, a term without exact English equivalent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 22. Dez. 694 · Arsinoites

† Φλάουιος Ἀτίας σὺν θεῷ παγάρχης ὑμῖν τοῖς ἀπὸ χωρίου Παντικοῦ Ἀλλαγῆς παγαρχίας Ἀρσινοίτου. καταβεβλήκατε ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ μέρους χρυσικῶν δημοσίων ἰνδικτίονος ζ ε θέματος ἐν μηνὶ Φαῶφι κα ἰνδικτίονος η διὰ Μακαρίου μείζονος ἀρίθμια νομισμάτια κεἴκοσι οὕτως· ἐν νομισματίοις ιϛ, ἐν …