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A receipt recording two payments made by Isidoros, tax collector of Karanis, toward the imperial tax assessment (delegatio) for earlier years: 3 talents on Phaophi 25 and 500 drachmas the next day, connected with the fixed levy of Kerkesoucha. It was issued at Karanis in the Fayum in October 303.
The 'divine assessment' (theia diatyposis) is the imperial tax schedule, often called the delegatio; the regnal years 17, 16 and 9 refer to the three emperors' counts for 300/301. The abbreviation read as apotaktos (fixed levy) is an editorial expansion.
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 Delegatio). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
A receipt issued in the Autumn of 303 A.D. to Isidorus, presumably the son of Ptolemaeus, who was collector of the delegatio for Karanis in 300/301 A.D. He is credited with turning in three talents on October 23rd and 500 drachmae on the following day.
ἔτους κ καὶ ιθ καὶ ιβ τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν καὶ Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Καισάρων Φαῶφι κε. διέγραψεν Ἰσίδωρος ἀπαιτητὴς Καρανίδος θείας διατυπώσεως ιζ ἔτους καὶ ιϛ ἔτους καὶ ἐνάτου ἔτους Κερκεσούχων ἀποτάκτου τάλαντα τρία, γίνονται τάλαντα γ. καὶ…
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