Receipts for Various Taxes
Four receipts (two columns, with two receipts in each) issued to Kyrillous, daughter of Kopres. She was also the sister of Ta�sis, who was the wife of Heras, brother of Isidorus.
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Receipts for chaff and other taxes paid by Aurelia Kyrillous TM 10382Kom Aushim (Karanis)313 and 314 A.D.
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A papyrus with several tax receipts issued to Aurelia Kyrillous, daughter of Kopres, at Karanis. Collectors acknowledge her payments for the price of chaff and for an imperial assessment and the primipilus levy, in amounts of 2,500, 1,200 and 940 drachmas. The latest receipt is dated by the consuls of AD 314.
In English machine translation
[1]
[…] and […] daughter(?) of Apollonios […]. Aurelia Kyrillous daughter of Kopres […] has paid to us for the price of chaff, the third part, 2,500 drachmas. I, Aurelius […], wrote on their behalf since they are illiterate. Thoth 7.
[…] I have signed.
[… 8 lines lost …]
[2]
Aurelius Heraklas son of Aeianos and Aurelius Hatres son of Serenos, collectors of chaff of the 21st year for the village of Karanis and its boundary district, to Aurelia Kyrillous daughter of Kopres, greetings. We have received from you, through the present Heraklas, for the price of chaff for the canon of the same year, 1,200 drachmas, total 1,200. Year 8 and year 6, Mesore 21.
Aurelius Valas and Aurelius Papeeis, both collectors of the boundary district of Karanis, to Aurelia Kyrillous daughter of Kopres, greetings. We have received from you for the imperial assessment of year 8 and year 6, and for the primipilus of the ninth (indiction?) and year 7, of the same boundary district of Karanis, 940 drachmas of silver, total 940 drachmas.
In the consulship of Rufius Volusianus and Petronius Annianus, the most illustrious prefects […].
The primipilus was a levy in kind or money supporting supplies for the army. Regnal years 'year 8 and year 6' refer to the joint reigns of Constantine and Licinius.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipts for Various Taxes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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[1] […]νος καὶ …σαις Ἀπολλωνίου […]…ε……ου. Αὐρηλία Κυριλλοῦς Κοπρῆ […] διέγραψεν ἡμῖν τιμῆς ἀχύρου τρίτου μέρους δραχμὰς δισχιλίας πεντακοσίας . Αὐρήλιος …… ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ἀγραμμάτων. Θὼθ ζ. […] σεσημείωμαι. [… 8 lines lost …] [2] Αὐρήλιοι Ἡρακλᾶς Ἀειάνου καὶ Ἁτρῆς Σερήνου ἀπα…