Accounts [between 334 and 335 AD]
Accounts of payments for a charge assessed to pay the costs of transporting grain from Alexandria to Rome: Antiourios and Kastor are collectors
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10482
Account of payments toward the sea-transport charge, with grain list TM 10482Karanis (Arsinoites)334 CE – 335 CE
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An account from Karanis listing individual taxpayers' payments in talents toward the thalassia, a charge for sea transport of grain, for the 8th indiction, collected through Antiouris (Antiourios) and Kastor, with sums paid in at the city. The back records quantities of grain in artabas, partly delivered to a granary.
In English machine translation
[recto, column 1]
Of which, collection of the sea-transport charge (thalassia) of the 8th indiction
through Antiouris:
Aion son of Kopres, 14 talents
Horion son of Apollos, 6 talents
Eudaimon son of Melas, … talents
Ouenanphris son of Hatres, […] talents
Isaris wife of Hatres, 6 talents
Kopres …[…], […] talents
Syrion son of Apollos, […] talents
Horion son of Apollos, […] talents
Kopres […], 6 talents
Isidoros son of Demetrios, […] talents
Tap…[…] wife of Ko[…], 2 talents
[…]is son of Hatre[…], … talents
[recto, column 2]
The amounts paid in
in the city on account of the sea-transport charge:
through Kastor son of Parithios, 55 talents of silver
through Antiourios in the city, 45 talents
likewise the same in the city, 20 talents
likewise Kastor in the city, 16 talents
[verso]
[…]
[…]…poual, 3 artabas
[…] Abok, 3 artabas
[…]… […] artabas
[…] Aion, 3 1/12 artabas
[…]
[in the] granary
[…]…as […]
[…]…pou, other, 1 artaba
[…] Kastor, 1 1/12 artabas
[…] Kastor, 1/2 artaba
[…] son of Ptolemaios, 2 1/2 artabas
[…], 1/2 1/3 artaba
[…]aian …[…], 1/2 1/3 artaba
Abok son of Pet…, 1 1/2 1/3 artabas
Atisis son of Abok, 2 artabas
The thalassia was a levy meeting the cost of shipping grain from Alexandria by sea; 'talents' here are inflated 4th-century accounting units of silver money. Patronymics are rendered as 'son of' where the Greek gives a name in the genitive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Accounts of Payments for Sea-Transportation). 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.col.7.130
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