Receipt for tim� purou
Tax receipt.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10346
Receipt for payments of the price of wheat and boundary-survey charge at Karanis TM 10346Kom Aushim (Karanis)April 14th, 311 A.D.
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Tax receipt recording four payments made on the same day by the brothers Kasis and Isidoros, sons of Heras, toward the money equivalent of a wheat levy for the 7th and 5th regnal years and a boundary-survey charge at Karanis. The payments total 65 talents and are dated 14 April 311.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of our lords Galerius Valerius Maximianus Augustus for the 8th time and Galerius Valerius Maximinus for the 2nd time,
Pharmouthi 19. Kasis and Isidoros, sons of Heras, have paid for the price of wheat of the 7th and 5th year, for the boundary-survey (?) of Karanis, twenty talents, total 20 talents.
And on the same day the same men paid for the price of wheat of the 7th year and the 5th year, for the boundary-survey of Karanis, ten talents, total 10 talents.
And on the same day the same men, for the price of wheat of the 7th year and the 5th year and for the boundary-survey of Karanis, twenty talents, total 20 talents.
And on the same day the same men paid for the price of wheat of the 7th and 5th year and for the boundary-survey of Karanis fifteen talents, total 15 talents.
The 'price of wheat' (timē pyrou) was a tax paid in money in place of wheat. 'Horiodeiktia' refers to the marking or surveying of boundaries, apparently levied as a charge on the village.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for τιμὴ πυροῦ). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.isid.146
ὑπατείας τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν Γαλερίου Οὐαλερίου Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ τὸ η καὶ Γαλερίου Οὐαλερίου Μαξιμίνου τὸ β Φαρμοῦθι ιθ διέγραψαν Κάσις καὶ Ἰσίδωρος οἱ Ἡρᾶ εἰς τιμὴν πυροῦ ζ καὶ ε ἔτους ὑπὲρ ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος τάλαντα εἴκοσι, γίνεται τάλαντα κ καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ διέγραψαν οἱ …