Arrears of the chaff levy

Description

A list of arrears due on the chaff levy of the 19th year of Galerius, i.e. 310/311. The collectors are not named, but they are idenified as Seuthes, son of Heras and Isidoros, son of ptolemaios. The list also fails to give the date on which was compliled. ;From the details provided in the list we may conclude that a large majority of the landholders at Karanis in 314 had still not discharhed their responsibility for the chaff tax due in 310/311. ;The document consists of six columns and the total quantity of chaff entered in each column was appended at the bottom of the column. The total for col. I is almost completely preserved. Very littele remains of the total for col. II and those for cols III and IV have been lost. Of the total for col. V, only oblique strokes such as mark a fraction are now visible. The total placed at the bottom of col. VI is exceptional in being perfectly preserved, but the addition is false.