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Title Tax Receipts
Author Unknown tax-collector
Summary Two receipts, never separated, for payment of the poll-tax (laographia)
Citations Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XV, 756, 1982, Pl. IX
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 6797
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 19 x 8 cm
Condition Broken off on the left
Lines Col. I - 6;;col. II - 6
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto
Origin Probably Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
More from Probably Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Language Greek
Date January 31, 193 A.D.
More from the period between 193 CE and 194 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto; Verso is blank
Subjects Hiera Pyle (amphodon of Arsinoiton polis); Taxation (persons); Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names Commodus, Emperor
Images Recto thumbnail
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License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

(Col. I);;Year 33 of Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 6 for the account of Mecheir. Ptolemaios, son of Mysthes the son of Ptolemaios, and of Tak(--), has paid for the poll tax of the 32nd year in the district of Hiera Pyle twenty drachmai, that is 20 dr., with additional payments of 10 obols.;;(Col. II);;Year 33 of Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus Caesar the lord, Mecheir 6 for the account of Mecheir. Ision, son of Ptolemaios the son of heron, and of Tap(--), has paid for the poll tax of the 32nd year in the district of Hiera Pyle twenty drachmai, that is 20 dr., with additional payments of 10 obols.