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Receipt for tax of ten percent on sales, paid to an official bank on the occasion of the sale of some house property at Tebtunis.
Translation: The third year of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, from the taxes of the nome. Paid into the bank of the nomarchy at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome to the farmers of the tax on sales, Tiberius Claudius Antoninus, Tiberius Claudius Ammonios, and Chairemon son of Apollonios of the Caesarian tribe and Althaean deme, by Tapnebtunis daughter of Lemesis the tax upon a half share of a house at Tebtunis (bought) from Opis son of Opis and Alexas and N.N. sons of Lemesis, all three ... (Here the papyrus breaks off.)
Translation: The third year of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, from the taxes of the nome. Paid into the bank of the nomarchy at Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome to the farmers of the tax on sales, Tiberius Claudius Antoninus, Tiberius Claudius Ammonios, and Chairemon son of Apollonios of the Caesarian tribe and Althaean deme, by Tapnebtunis daughter of Lemesis the tax upon a half share of a house at Tebtunis (bought) from Opis son of Opis and Alexas and N.N. sons of Lemesis, all three ... (Here the papyrus breaks off.)