Extracted Text

Koine Greek

διέγραψ(εν) Παχνοῦβις Πετροσζμητ

Θρακίδ(ου)

ὑ̣π(ὲρ) λαογραφ(ίας) ἐνάτου (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ

Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργ(υρίου) (δραχμὰς) δεκαεπτά, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.

Ἑρμογένης πράκ(τωρ) ἔγραψα.

(ἔτους) ι Τραειανοῦ

Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἁθ̣ὺ̣ρ η.

Latin

Apparatus

1. l. Πετορζμήτιος

2. l. Τραιανοῦ

5. l. Τραιανοῦ

Translation

It was written by Pachnoubis Petroszmet.

Of Thracian descent.

Under the ethnography of the ninth year of Trajan.

Seventeen silver drachmas, (which are) (drachmas) 17.

Hermogenes the agent wrote this.

(In the year) 1 of Trajan.

Of the lord Caesar Athur.

Extracted Koine Greek Text

διέγραψ(εν) Παχνοῦβις Πετροσζμητ
(*)
Θρακίδ(ου)
ὑ̣π(ὲρ) λαογραφ(ίας) ἐνάτου (ἔτους) Τραειανοῦ
(*)
Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ἀργ(υρίου) (δραχμὰς) δεκαεπτά, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) ιζ.
Ἑρμογένης πράκ(τωρ) ἔγραψα.
5 (ἔτους) ι Τραειανοῦ (*) Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου
Ἁθ̣ὺ̣ρ η.

Apparatus (Critical Notes)

1. l. Πετορζμήτιος
2. l. Τραιανοῦ
5. l. Τραιανοῦ

English Translation

Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmetis, has paid (or registered as paid)
(*)
son of Thrakides,
for the poll-tax of the ninth year of Trajan
(*)
Caesar the lord, seventeen silver drachmas, total 17 drachmas.
I, Hermogenes, the collector, have written (this).
Year 10 of Trajan Caesar the lord,
Hathyr 8.

Notes on the Text

The text is a receipt or tax record from Roman Egypt (likely from the early 2nd century CE, during the reign of Emperor Trajan). It records the payment of the poll-tax (λαογραφία) by Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmetis, for the ninth year of Emperor Trajan's reign. The amount paid is seventeen drachmas. The document is signed by Hermogenes, the tax collector, and dated to the 8th day of the Egyptian month Hathyr in the tenth year of Trajan's reign.